Rclip

Rclip - clipboard manager written in rust. It's just a daemon which look for clipboard updates and save them each per unique file.

Features

• Each history entry saves in unique file.
• Daemon does not handle clipboard history in RAM, so there is little memory consumption.
• Checking for duplicates (and skipping them). P.S. it compares only last clipboard entry with current new.
• Ability to set list of targets (in Xorg terms it means type of clipboard entry) that will be saved. (for example libreoffice formatted text, images, standard text).
• Ability to set minimal length of entry you want to save.
• Ability to pause rclip so it will not save next clipboard update (useful, for example, when setting password from password manager).

Bonus

• Easy to access each entry and write your own scripts to manipulate them.
• Easy to delete entries.
• Ability to use with fuzzy finders, like fzf (scripts examples presented).

Installation

On Arch Linux

AUR package: rclip-git

With cargo

cargo install rclipd

Also see ./install_scripts.sh for installing provided scripts.

Usage

First thing you need to do - is run daemon:

rclip daemon

(Recommended to add it to startup).

All saved history entries stored in ~/.local/share/rclip/{target_name}/ (where ~/.local/share follows to $XDG_DATA_HOME by XDG specification), one file per entry.

Copying and removing entries

For convenience you can use provided scripts scripts/copy.sh (or rclip_copy if installed from package) and scripts/rm.sh (or rclip_rm) or write your own. Mentioned scripts by default operate with text entries (using fzf), but you can pass argument image and it will operate with images (using feh). To select image in feh just press "enter" key.

Note: feh have default bind ctrl+delete which delete current file. ...And this work in rclip_copy image.

Pause saving entries

If you use password manager, it will be useful to pause rclip, so just send signal SIGUSR1 and rclip will skip next clipboard update:

pkill -SIGUSR1 ^rclip$

Configuration

Config file ~/.config/rclip/config.toml will be automatically created on first run.

There is only two settings:

1. targets_list - is a list of targets you want to save. Example (default):

    targets_list = [
        'image/png',
        'UTF8_STRING',
    ]
   

2. min_length - is a minimal length of entry you want to save. By default is 3.

Inspiration

Inspired by greenclip, a clipboard manager written in haskell.