Introduction

ClipIt is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager.

Project website: https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt

ClipIt - Lightweight GTK+ Clipboard Manager

Copyright (C) 2010-2019 by Cristian Henzel oss@rspwn.com

Copyright (C) 2011 by Eugene Nikolsky pluton.od@gmail.com

forked from parcellite, which is

Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Gilberto "Xyhthyx" Miralla xyhthyx@gmail.com

ClipIt available in Debian and Ubuntu repositories (1.4.4) is broken. Use latest package from this repo.

How to compile and install clipit

Requirements:

• gtk+ >= 2.10.0 (>= 3.0 for gtk+3)
• xdotool - for automatic paste functionality
• intltool

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git automake xdotool autoconf intltool autopoint gtk+-3.0

Download the clipit source code, then:

tar zxvf clipit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd clipit-x.y.z
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-gtk3 
make
sudo make install

Build using meson:

meson build -Dwith-gtk3=true
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install  

PPA builds

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:afelinczak/ppa

Documentation

Default keybindings:

Action	Key combination
History	Ctrl + Alt + h
Actions	Ctrl + Alt + a
Menu	Ctrl + Alt + p
Search	Ctrl + Alt + f
Offline mode	Ctrl + Alt + o