Stash is a Wayland clipboard manager. It keeps a persistent record of copied content and provides an interactive terminal interface for browsing and retrieving previous clipboard entries.
The application takes inspiration from Cliphist but extends the concept with additional storage, privacy and management capabilities. It can be used interactively or incorporated into scripts, making it suitable for users who prefer keyboard-driven workflows and command-line automation.
Stash is particularly interesting for anyone who wants tighter control over what their clipboard manager records. Rather than simply collecting everything copied to the clipboard indefinitely, it provides mechanisms for excluding sensitive material and managing the lifetime of stored entries.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- SQLite database provides persistent clipboard history with support for text, images and other clipboard data.
- Automatic MIME type detection identifies stored content, with configurable text previews and image information.
- Interactive terminal history browser supports searching, selecting, copying and deleting entries.
- Optional encryption of stored clipboard entries using age protects the contents of the history database at rest.
- Sensitive content filtering using regular expressions, application exclusions and password manager hints, including KDE’s x-kde-passwordManagerHint.
- Automatic clipboard monitoring through stash watch, with configurable expiry periods and clipboard persistence after the source application closes.
- Deduplication, configurable entry limits, minimum and maximum content sizes, and prevention of unwanted whitespace-only entries.
- Import clipboard history from Cliphist-compatible TSV data, simplifying migration from an existing setup.
- Command-line operations for importing, decoding, deleting and managing stored entries, including database statistics and cleanup.
- Supports TSV and JSON output for integration with scripts and external menu applications.
- Provides drop-in alternatives to wl-copy and wl-paste for Wayland clipboard operations.
Website: github.com/NotAShelf/stash
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Developer: NotAShelf
License: Mozilla Public License v2.0
Related Software
| TUI Clipboard Managers | |
|---|---|
| Clippy | Lightweight terminal-based clipboard history manager |
| clipse | TUI-based clipboard manager application written in Go |
| Stash | Wayland clipboard manager written in Rust |
| Clipboard Manager | Designed for tiling window managers |
| Homie | Clipboard manager written in Go |
| ClipTUI | Runs as a background daemon, recording clipboard entries locally |
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