Looking for an App for clipboard management...

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 21:44:01 EDT 2006


iirc WMcliphist is such a beast or close.

On 8/23/06, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
> OK, I know I may be looking for something that doesn't exist, but...
>
> I'm looking for an X11 application for clipboard management that...
>
> * can save the list of clipboards or load a custom set on start
> * does NOT run in a system tray or gnome/xfce/wm/kde dock/systray/etc
> (eg: Not limited to only one window manager)
> * can be sized to be out of the way... (like say, an inch or less wide
> along one side of the desktop)
> * can be configured to not automatically save a clipboard buffer to the
> list....
>
> Basically, what I'm envisioning is a window along one side of the
> desktop with maybe a couple buttons or menus at the top and a list of
> short names of buffer contents scrolling down from there.  I click a
> name, highlighting the name, and the contents are sent to the X11
> clipboard buffer.  I can then middle click in my document, pasting the
> content there.
>
> Is there such a beast?
>
> ...I'd write this myself... if I knew a language it could be done in.
>
>
> Brian
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Bill
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