looking for cliphist-sh?
cliphist
clipboard history “manager” for wayland
- write clipboard changes to a history file
- recall history with dmenu / rofi / wofi (or whatever other picker you like)
- both text and images are supported
- clipboard is preserved byte-for-byte
- leading / trailing whitespace / no whitespace or newlines are preserved
- won’t break fancy editor selections like vim wordwise, linewise, block mode
- no concept of a picker, only pipes
requires: go, wl-clipboard, xdg-utils (for image mime inferance)
install
$ go install go.senan.xyz/cliphist@latest
alternatively, static binaries can be found on the releases
page
usage
listen for clipboard changes
$ wl-paste --watch cliphist store
this will listen for changes on your primary keyboard and write it to
the history.
call it once per session - for example in your sway config
select old item
$ cliphist list | dmenu | cliphist decode | wl-copy
bind it to something nice on your keyboard
delete old item
$ cliphist list | dmenu | cliphist delete
or else query manually
$ cliphist delete-query "secret item"
clear database
$ cliphist wipe
