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clipman(1) General Commands Manual clipman(1) NAME clipman - a clipboard manager for Wayland SYNOPSIS clipman [<options>] <command> [<args> ...] DESCRIPTION A basic clipboard manager for Wayland, with support for persisting copy buffers after an application exits. OPTIONS -h, --help Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man). --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman.json" Path of history file --primary Serve item to the primary clipboard. Default: --no-primary --notify Send desktop notifications on errors --err-on-no-selection exit with an exit 1 when no selection is made in the picker. --min-char minimum number of characters before storing -v, --version Show application version. COMMANDS help [<command>...] Show help. store [<flags>] Record clipboard events (run as argument to `wl-paste --watch`) --max-items=15 history size -P, --no-persist Don't persist a copy buffer after a program exits --unix Normalize line endings to LF pick --tool=TOOL [<flags>] Pick an item from clipboard history --max-items=15 scrollview length -t, --tool=TOOL Which selector to use: wofi/bemenu/CUSTOM/STDOUT -T, --tool-args="" Extra arguments to pass to the --tool --print0 Separate items using NULL; recommended if your tool supports --read0 or similar --normalize-unicode Normalize to NFC per https://unicode.org/reports/tr15 clear [<flags>] Remove item/s from history --max-items=15 scrollview length -t, --tool=TOOL Which selector to use: wofi/bemenu/CUSTOM/STDOUT -T, --tool-args="" Extra arguments to pass to the --tool -a, --all Remove all items --print0 Separate items using NULL; recommended if your tool supports --read0 or similar --normalize-unicode Normalize to NFC per https://unicode.org/reports/tr15 restore Serve the last recorded item from history show-history Show all items from history USAGE Run the binary in your Sway session by adding to your config: exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store or to log errors: exec wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store \ 1>> PATH/TO/LOGFILE 2>&1 It is highly recommended that you run clipman with the --no-persist option, see KNOWN ISSUES. For primary clipboard support, also add: exec wl-paste -p -t text --watch clipman store -P \ --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json" note that both the `-p` in wl-paste and the `-P` in clipman are mandatory in this case. To query the history and select items, run the binary as clipman pick -t wofi You can assign it to a keybinding: bindsym $mod+h exec clipman pick -t wofi You can pass additional arguments to the selector like this: clipman pick --tool wofi -T'--prompt=my-prompt -i' both `--prompt` and `-i` are flags of wofi. You can use a custom selector like this: clipman pick --print0 --tool=CUSTOM --tool-args= \ "fzf --prompt 'pick > ' --bind 'tab:up' --cycle --read0" To only paste if there's something selected: bindsym $mod+v exec "clipman pick -t wofi --err-on-no-selection \ && wtype -M ctrl -M shift v" To remove items from history: clipman clear -t wofi clipman clear --all To serve the last history item at startup, add this to your Sway config: exec clipman restore BUGS When you experience a clipboard-related bug, try to see if it still happens without clipman running, as it's more likely to be caused by one of our own known issues rather than wl-clipboard. KNOWN ISSUES We only support plain text. By default, we continue serving the last copied item even after its owner has exited. This means that, unless you run with the --no-persist option, you'll always immediately lose rich content; for example: vim's visual block mode breaks; copying images in Firefox breaks; if you copy a bookmark in Firefox, you won't be able to paste it in another bookmark folder; if you copy formatted text inside Libre Office you'll lose all formatting on paste. Run clipman store with the --no-persist option if you are affected. Unfor- tunately, it seems that there is no way to make them play well together. clipman(1)
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