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Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Over the years, I've tried several clipboard tools, and I don't remember specifics as to why I stopped using most of them. parcellite, clipit, qlipper... maybe another. They were either buggy or clunky or didn't quite do the right thing.

Then, I tried diodon, and it was great. Until I discovered zeitgeist. That's gnome's activity tracker, and I don't even want it on my system.

If there were a fork of diodon without zeitgeist, I'd use it.

Maybe some of the other ones have improved. Well, before I start trying them all out, I figured it'd be worth asking for comments here, regarding any particular one. I should stay away from qlipper, simply because I'm running the MATE desktop.

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #2 –
I am using parcellite for years. It has all that I need. Almost :-)

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: tintin – on
Clipman ?

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/a-clipboard-manager-for-mate/20197

Heh.
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... only one worked (Clipman), albeit with duplicate icons in the panel.

Possibly, that's been fixed in the last 3 years?

And:
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(from my own testing most of them didn't work at all).

Sounds like my experience. :o

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I am using parcellite for years. It has all that I need. Almost

I think that's the first one I tried, many years ago, but:
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https://www.baeldung.com/linux/clipboard-history-tools

However, the user interface of parcellite isn’t very convenient to use.

That might be what I didn't like.  clipit is a fork of parcellite, done to add an indicator.

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

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I use copyq.
Sometimes after copying something it is removed from the clipboard and I have to copy it from copyq.
Besides that I find pretty good.

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: kiblaster – on
I use copyq.
Sometimes after copying something it is removed from the clipboard and I have to copy it from copyq.
That's the one that has tabs. Might be too heavyweight for me.

But you raise an interesting question: keepassxc erases copied passwords from the clipboard after 10 seconds. I wonder how any of these programs handle that.

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: just_jed – on
But you raise an interesting question: keepassxc erases copied passwords from the clipboard after 10 seconds. I wonder how any of these programs handle that.
Parcellite saves passwords from keepassxc so in terms of security one has to clear parcellite history manually.

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: just_jed – on

Possibly, that's been fixed in the last 3 years?


Here is what I am offered:
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trizen clipman
1 galaxy/xfce4-clipman-plugin 1.6.7-1 [xfce4-goodies] [installé]
    A clipboard plugin for the Xfce4 panel
2 chaotic-aur/clipman 1.6.4-1
    A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
3 aur/clipman 1.6.4-1 [42+] [0.88%] [27 Apr 2024]
    A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
4 aur/clipman-git 1.6.4.r1.g0e1d363-1 [unmaintained] [0+] [0.00%] [25 Jun 2024]
    A simple clipboard manager for Wayland

Re: Best clipboard tool that isn't diodon?

Reply #8 –
i like moksha's built in module