Clipboard manager for Ubuntu?

I'm looking for a good program for managing clipboard history on the Ubuntu desktop used primaraly for software development. Ditto is exactly what I need, except it wont run on Ubuntu.

Arthur Ulfeldt

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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See my answer about A simple clipboard manager for Gnome on Software Recommendations.

– mguassa – 2015-08-07T20:24:52.820

Answers

Glipper is a GNOME clipboard app, and Parcelite is a GTK+ clipboard manager. Both should be available to install from the repository.

If you're using Unity or GNOME Shell, ClipIt is a fork of Parcellite with AppIndicator support (thanks @pydave). It has a Ubuntu package.

user4358

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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2glipper is lacking good search – Arthur Ulfeldt – 2010-02-25T20:05:36.617

I've found glipper very crashy, does it work fine for you? – pupeno – 2010-06-08T05:44:21.393

parcelite's hotkeys worked better for me. I had to check a box in preferences to make it pull selected text in addition to ctrl-C'd text – Arthur Ulfeldt – 2009-10-09T18:20:50.153

Diodon is now in the Ubuntu repositories.

Install it with:

sudo apt-get install diodon -y

There's also a PPA with an updated version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install diodon unity-scope-diodon

Nicolay77

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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This link is now dead :-( – Mawg says reinstate Monica – 2015-01-27T08:36:58.127

Link is working again now. +1 for Diodon. – spinup – 2015-12-09T16:28:19.190

Diodon is what is the closer to Ditto on Windows. It just lacks a shortcut that displays the recent copies, as Ditto do. But it's better than CopyQ and glipper IMO. – Vadorequest – 2016-01-26T15:47:54.380

Diodon doesn't appear to work with 16.04 (at least it didn't for me). – Paul Bissex – 2016-08-02T18:38:14.103

@PaulBissex me too – guy mograbi – 2016-08-09T09:48:03.350

Yeah, I went with Clipit in the end.

– Paul Bissex – 2016-08-15T20:50:43.953

ClipIt is a Parcellite fork with Ubuntu menu integration.

sudo apt-get install clipit

grosser

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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CopyQ is a cross-platform clipboard manager written in Qt that comes with many advanced features.

CopyQ features:

configurable history size, number of tray menu items, multiple clipboards etc.;
editable and searchable clipboard history;
encryption;
synchronization;
keyboard shortcuts for opening the clipboard history, show the tray menu and more;
commands: you can define actions or commands when a text copied to the clipboard matches some criteria you set. This can be used for instance to open video player if text copied to the clipboard is an URL with multimedia content and so on;
image support: when you copy a selection in GIMP, an image in Shutter (take a screenshot), etc., the image preview is displayed in the tray menu as well as in the clipboard history. This obviously doesn't work if you copy some image file (e.g.: in Nautilus) since that's treated like any other file;
Customizable appearance;
command line support: tabs, items, clipboard and configuration can be changed through command line interface; more.

CopyQ clipboard history

CopyQ Commands / actions

Enkouyami

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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Try anamnesis.

I created it because there wan't an alternative for Ditto that works on Ubuntu, and especially because I needed to be able to search the clipboard history.

Note it is still under development and it needs more tests, but is working fine for me.

fabiowguerra

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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Clipit can search history – Alexey – 2012-12-06T13:48:10.727

Keepboard provides various ways to manage clipboard history.

Dragan

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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Just to be complete, there's also the older "xclipboard".

Teddy

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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Under KDE (Kubuntu, etc) there's "Klipper".

wazoox

Posted 2009-09-17T23:18:38.247

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