Clipon - A Lightweight Clipboard Manager
Clipon is a open source project for managing your clipboard history in a simple and efficient way.
It's useful when you want to take notes from some interesting documents or web pages you are reading. But you might not want to do copy and paste frequently. Because the paste operation needs you switch to another app to do paste and then switch back, which is kind of a distraction. with Clipon, you just copy things when reading, and do paste in batch after reading.
It also helps remember what you have copied and you might later want to revisit some of them.
Installation
Install required packages first
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It is not packaged in pypi, so you have to install it by youself. Depending on your distribution, the package are usually named python-gi, python-gobject or pygobject3.
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python-dbus
You can install it from pypi using pip tool or using package management tool of your distribution.
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docopt
It can be installed automatically when installing the Clipon (see below). So it's not necessary to install it by youself.
Then install Clipon
$ git clone https://github.com/jinuxstyle/clipon.git
$ cd clipon
$ python setup.py install
Usage
After installation, start the daemon
$ clipon start
Then you can view the clipboard history with following command
$ clipon list
Clipon supports a number of subcommands for controlling the daemon and managing the clipboard history.
$ clipon -h | --help
Usage:
clipon <command> [<options>...]
General Options:
-h, --help Show help
--version Show version and exit
Commands:
start Start clipon daemon
list List clipboard history
clear Clear history
size Total number of items
config Configure clipon
info Summary about clipon configuration and history
pause Pause tracking clipboard
resume Resume tracking clipboard
stop Stop and quit clipon daemon
status Status of clipon daemon
See 'clipon <command> -h' for more information on a specific command.
Development
You can contribute and help in various ways including reporting bugs, proposing suggestions or ideas, and submitting pull requests.
License
Clipon is under the GPL license.