Looking for an App for clipboard management...

[John Abreau]

Brian Chabot wrote:
> Bill Ricker wrote:
> 
>> iirc WMcliphist is such a beast or close.
> 
> 
> Close, but not quite.  It's basically a clone of klipper you can 
> undock... which is a step in the right direction...
> 
> But I'm not looking to save a clipboard history.  I need something that 
> I can manually add or remove items.
> To give you an idea of the use I'm looking for... Imagine working in 
> email tech support.  You have a few hundred emails to answer in a day 
> and many of them are the same thing, like "How do I change my password?" 
> and such.  You don't wnat to type each one every time.  
> Opening/importing a text file is a few steps too many.  You want to 
> click on a button and middle click in the document to insert the text.

You could use something like xpad to hold the boilerplate text:

     * Right-click the xpad icon to get a menu of notes
     * Ctl-A within the note to Select All


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