Stash is a Wayland clipboard manager written in Rust.
It keeps a persistent clipboard history, supports both text and image entries, offers previews in a terminal interface, and provides command-line tools for storing, listing, importing, decoding, deleting, and automatically watching clipboard changes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses SQLite for fast persistent clipboard history.
- Automatically detects MIME types for stored clipboard entries.
- Supports importing clipboard history from Cliphist TSV format.
- Includes de-duplication, whitespace prevention, and configurable entry limits.
- Offers automatic clipboard monitoring with the
stash watchcommand, including configurable auto-expiry. - Can filter sensitive clipboard entries by regular expression or by application.
- Provides drop-in replacements for
wl-copyandwl-paste.
Website: github.com/NotAShelf/stash
Support:
Developer: NotAShelf
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
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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