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Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux
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Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux
#22One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?
Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates. How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?
I looked at mine, and it only has entries from my current login session.
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#23Great work! does the CLI support clipboard operations like MacOS' `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` ? I've added it to my stars to keep and eye on the project, GTK4 and wayland support makes it rather futureproof IMO
It would be nice if you could pipe to it like pbcopy, with each invocation creating a new entry, and add support for automatically expiring old entries.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually went looking at the source code to see if this would work on Wayland and it doesn't. The clipboard snooping is implemented by listening for events using gdk.Clipboard, which is not an ext_data_control_v1 implementation. So on Wayland it'll only notice clipboard events if it's in focus (or if the compositor sends clipboard events to unfocused windows, which I'm not sure any do). https://github.com/murat-cil…
Odd, why does the readme tout "Full Wayland support" then?
Because its easy to write it and most wont even verify?
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#25Congrats on the release, I went the other way around, osx first in my case https://github.com/fkhadra/xcp, I'll probably add support for linux and windows when I get the time. Funny that we both used golang for that.
Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux
#26One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?
Yup as others have said, super+v for me invokes greenclip's rofi plugin which gives me a nice themable clipboard history overlay.
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#27Does it support indicators? If not, any plans to add it?
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#28Linux clipboards have been a pain point to me for decades. What I really want is a single unified clipboard daemon that works across different login sessions and covers console and graphical environments with the same keyboard shortcut. Bonus points if it's got a single-use-paste option for passwords, and also buffers to hold onto multiple selections.
For clarity, are you expecting a clipboard in full terminal sessions (including serial?) or are you just meaning pty sessions with a terminal emulator?
I'm not sure how a clipboard manager would know the text copied in was a password (or 2fa).
Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux
#29Great work! does the CLI support clipboard operations like MacOS' `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` ? I've added it to my stars to keep and eye on the project, GTK4 and wayland support makes it rather futureproof IMO
There's wl-clipboard for this, has wl-copy and wl-paste commands. I've been using it on sway for years.
Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux
#30One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?
I’ve used ditto for this since before windows gained this capability. It also has an ignore list (e.g. keepass lives there) and a few other niceties which make it one of the first tools I install on a windows box (not very often anymore, granted).