Great 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
I thought wayland had some restrictions on global clipboard access and the last time I tried none of the well known clipboard managers worked as expected. (Also they all looked like shit).
This has been one of my pain points switching from macOS to linux or windows. Great job.
Linux 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.
This wouldn't prevent the malware that's constantly scanning the clipboard from stealing your password; it would only prevent you from using it after it's been stolen.
One 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'm using Gnome. On Gnome, you could just install "Clipboard Indicator" or something like this in Gnome Extension and set shortcut as "Super+V". It's pretty easy, I think.
I use CopyQ. Love it because it's so cross-platform, and consistently works across my Mac and Linux machines with minimal fuss; it handles images really well too.
These clipboards are a privacy problem when you're sharing your screen. So many times a coworker has copy/pasted and a dialog with even passwords have been shown on screen...
Congrats 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.
On Debian, I use a zeitgeist-compatible clipboard, and a rofi menu to fuzzy search / select the entries. Zeitgeist uses SQLite as well. It has only ever given me grief when I copied a very large image (>50MB) to the clipboard.
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This wouldn't prevent the malware that's constantly scanning the clipboard from stealing your password; it would only prevent you from using it after it's been stolen.
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?
Selection bias aside, Linux clipboards with history have existed for close to two decades, possibly more.