Clipmenu

I've noticed that a lot of X applications like to clear the clipboard when they close which can be quite annoying when I'm trying to get work done so why not skip all of that and just keep a list of everything you've copied, that's what you get with Clipmenu and instead of building a new interface it hooks into existing programs like Dmenu and Rofi so you can easily integrate it into your. The latest version of ClipMenu is supported on Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later. Our built-in antivirus checked this Mac download and rated it as virus free. The most popular version among the application users is 0.4. This app's bundle is identified as com.naotaka.ClipMenu. The program's installation file is commonly found as ClipMenu0.4.3.dmg. The purpose of this software is to displays fmv clips (up to 10) on an intro menu, which is fully selectable, handy for a cd with multiple videos. Clipmenu is an application I've been using for many years now and, just like the Finder or Mail, is an application I'm highly dependent on, mainly because it's become so well integrated with the OS that I don't even notice using it anymore. Any Mac that doesn't have Clipmenu.

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ClipMenu allows you to create your own custom actions for a clipboard history item to perform text manipulations. Folders factory 1 8 – change the color of folders. A custom action is a single file written in JavaScript, a popular scripting language.

According to Wikipedia:

The clipboard is a facility used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations.

History

In X10, cut buffers were introduced. These were limited buffers that stored arbitrary text and were used by most applications. However, they were inefficient and implementation of them varied, so selections were introduced. Cut buffers are long deprecated, and although some applications (such as xterm) may have legacy support for them, it is both not likely and not recommended that they be used.

Selections

Freedesktop.org describes the two main selections as follows:[4]

PRIMARY

Used for the currently selected text, even if it is not explicitly copied, and for middle-mouse-click pasting. In some cases, pasting is also possible with a keyboard shortcut.

CLIPBOARD

Used for explicit copy/paste commands involving keyboard shortcuts or menu items. Hence, it behaves like the single-clipboard system on Windows. Unlike PRIMARY, it can also handle multiple data formats.

The majority of programs for Xorg, including Qt and GTK applications, follow this behavior. While ICCCM also defines a SECONDARY selection, it does not have a consensually agreed upon purpose. Despite the naming, all three selections are basically 'clipboards'. Rather than the old 'cut buffers' system where arbitrary applications could modify data stored in the cut buffers, only one application may control or 'own' a selection at one time. This prevents inconsistencies in the operation of the selections.

See the Keyboard shortcuts page which lists the default shortcuts in many programs.

It is also important to realize that according to the selection protocols, nothing is copied until it is pasted. For example, if you select some word in a terminal window, close the terminal and then want to paste it somewhere else, it will not work because the terminal is gone and the text has not been copied anywhere. If you want the word to be preserved after closing terminal window, consider installing a clipboard manager.

Tools

This section lists command-line tools to manipulate the clipboards.

• sselp — Simple X selection printer. Prints the X selection to stdout.

http://tools.suckless.org/x/sselp || sselp^AUR

• xclip — A lightweight, command-line based interface to the clipboard.

https://github.com/astrand/xclip || xclip

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• xsel — Command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection.

http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/ || xsel

• wl-clipboard — A simple copy/paste tool for Wayland compositors.

https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard || wl-clipboard

Managers

This section lists daemons that track your clipboard, to provide a clipboard history and/or synchronization.

• Anamnesis — Clipboard manager that stores all the clipboard history and offers an interface to do a full-text search. It has both a command line and GUI mode available.

http://anamnesis.sourceforge.net/ || anamnesis^AUR

• Autocutsel — Command line and daemon interfaces to synchronize PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD and cut buffer selections.

http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/ || autocutsel

• Clipboard Indicator — Clipboard manager extension for GNOME Shell. Adds a clipboard indicator to the top panel, and caches clipboard history.

https://github.com/Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator || gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator-git^AUR

• ClipIt — Fork of Parcellite.It has both a command line and GUI mode available.

https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt || clipit^AUR

• Clipman — Clipboard manager plugin for the Xfce4 panel. It keeps the clipboard contents around while it is usually lost when you close an application. It is able to handle text and images, and has a feature to execute actions on specific text selections by matching them against regular expressions.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin || xfce4-clipman-plugin

• ClipManager — Cross-platform clipboard manager written in Python and Qt.

https://github.com/scottwernervt/clipmanager || clipmanager^AUR

• Clipmenu — Dmenu based clipboard manager

https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu/ || clipmenu

• Clipster — A lightweight, command-line-driven clipboard manager, written in Python.

https://github.com/mrichar1/clipster || clipster^AUR, clipster-git^AUR

• CopyQ — Clever Qt clipboard manager with searchable and editable history, custom actions on items and command line support.

https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ || copyq

• Glipper — Clipboard manager for the GNOME desktop with many features and plugin support.

https://launchpad.net/glipper || glipper^AUR

• GPaste — Clipboard management system that aims at being a new generation Parcellite, with a modular structure split in a couple of libraries and a daemon for adaptability. Offers a GNOME Shell extension and a CLI interface.

https://github.com/Keruspe/GPaste || gpaste

• Greenclip — Simple clipboard manager to be integrated with rofi

https://github.com/erebe/greenclip || rofi-greenclip^AUR

• Klipper — Full featured clipboard manager for the KDE desktop.

https://userbase.kde.org/Klipper || plasma-workspace

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• Parcellite — Lightweight yet feature-rich clipboard manager. It has both a command line and GUI mode available.

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http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/ || parcellite

• Pasteall — Clipboard monitor simple and functional (with notifications in Portuguese).

https://github.com/ShyPixie/Pasteall || pasteall^AUR

• Qlipper — Lightweight and cross-platform clipboard history applet based on Qt.

https://github.com/pvanek/qlipper/ || qlipper^AUR

• xclipboard — Official X clipboard command-line client.

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xclipboard.1.html || xorg-xclipboard

• xcmenu — Clipboard synchronizer developed for window manager users.

https://github.com/dindon-sournois/xcmenu || xcmenu-git^AUR

See also

Clipmenu Windows

ClipMenu is a clipboard history manager for Mac OS X. I've tried a lot of others, both paid and free, but for me this one is a keeper.

While not visually snazzy (and I think that's one of the reasons I like it so much), ClipMenu has a very intuitive approach to managing your clipboard history, especially for us keyboard shortcut junkies. You can invoke it with a user-specified keyboard shortcut (I use Command-Option-V), select cliboard history items from the keyboard using Command-1, Command-2, and so on, and it even has a Snippets section where you can add folders of frequently used items. The latter being kind of like a TextExpander without the text shortcuts, if that makes any sense. But it comes in handy.

An advanced feature I don't really use often but which looks really powerful is the Actions section. Basically, by adding a modifier key when clicking a clipboard history item, you can apply a javascript action to the pasted text. Some of the built-in scripts are things like: Paste As Plain Text; Surround with (which includes quotes, brackets, parentheses and so on); Capitalize, lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Title Case. If you know how to write javascript (which I do not), you can create your own.

I had a coder buddy whip up this one for me which I'll share: a script that will change text-that-is-separated-with-dashes to Text That Is Separated With Dashes. Why did I want that? When posting images to sites like Flickr or Dribbble, I name my image files descriptively, and use the file names as the basis for the title of the image post. This saves me from re-typing it. You can download the Dashes to Spaces + Word Caps script if it sounds useful to you. Tell Greg Newman thanks if you find it handy.