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clipman(1) General Commands Manual clipman(1)

NAME

clipman

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

A clipboard manager for Wayland

OPTIONS

Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
Path of history file
Show application version.

COMMANDS

help [<command>...]

Show help.

store [<flags>]

Record clipboard events (run as argument to `wl-paste --watch`)

history size
Don't persist a copy buffer after a program exits

pick [<flags>]

Pick an item from clipboard history

scrollview length
Which selector to use: dmenu/bemenu/rofi/wofi/STDOUT
Extra arguments to pass to the --tool

clear [<flags>]

Remove item/s from history

scrollview length
Which selector to use: dmenu/bemenu/rofi/wofi/STDOUT
Extra arguments to pass to the --tool
Remove all items

restore

Serve the last recorded item from history

USAGE

Run the binary in your Sway session by adding `exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store` (or `exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store 1>> PATH/TO/LOGFILE 2>&1 &` to log errors) at the beginning of your config. For primary clipboard support, also add `exec wl-paste -p -t text --watch clipman store --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json`.

To query the history and select items, run the binary as `clipman pick`. You can assign it to a keybinding: `bindsym $mod+h exec clipman pick`. For primary clipboard support, `clipman pick --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json`.

To remove items from history, `clipman clear` and `clipman clear --all`.

To serve the last history item at startup, add `exec clipman restore` to your Sway config.

KNOWN ISSUES

All items stored in history are treated as plain text. This means that, unless you run with the `--no-persist` option, you'll always immediately lose rich content: for example, if you copy formatted text inside Libre Office you'll lose all formatting on paste.

1.2.0