Ringboard is a Linux clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture.
It separates clipboard watching, storage, and browsing into dedicated components, making it suitable for a range of desktop setups instead of tying the software to a single environment or framework.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Remembers clipboard history across reboots.
- Stores text, images, and arbitrary binary data.
- Lets you search clipboard history with regex or raw queries.
- Supports multiple clients including a command-line interface, terminal UI, and graphical client.
- Works with both Wayland and X11 through dedicated clipboard watcher components.
- Includes tooling to migrate history from other clipboard managers such as Gnome Clipboard History, GPaste, and Clipboard Indicator.
- Designed to scale to very large clipboard histories, with support for roughly one million saved entries.
Website: github.com/SUPERCILEX/clipboard-history
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Developer: Alex Saveau
License: Apache License 2.0
Ringboard is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| CLI Clipboard Managers | |
|---|---|
| clipmenu | Simple clipboard manager using dmenu (or rofi) and xsel |
| cliphist | Clipboard history manager for Wayland |
| Clipcat | Uses a client-server architecture |
| Greenclip | Recycle your clipboard selections |
| Ringboard | Clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture |
| Clipvault | Clipboard history manager for Wayland |
| Clipster | Simple clipboard manager which aims to be lightweight |
| nocb | Nearly optimal clipboard manager |
| clipsim | Simple and fast X clipboard manager |
| cclip | Cipboard manager for Wayland |
| Clapboard | Clipboard manager for Wayland written in Rust |
| Qlipmon | Clipboard history saver with native rofi plugin and DBUS interface |
| clipbox | Clipboard manager for Wayland |
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