Gnome Clipboard History

Gnome Clipboard History is a clipboard manager GNOME extension that saves what you've copied into an easily accessible, searchable history panel.

The extension is a rewrite of Clipboard Indicator with vastly improved performance, new features, and bug fixes.

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Tips

• Open the panel from anywhere with Super + Shift + V.
• Modify shortcuts in settings or delete them by hitting backspace while editing a shortcut.
• Use the Only save favorites to disk feature to wipe your non-favorited items on shutdown.
• Use Private mode to temporarily stop processing copied items.
• Use keyboard shortcuts while the panel is open:
  • Ctrl + N where N is a number from 1 to 9 to select the Nth non-favorited entry.
  • Super + Ctrl + N where N is a number from 1 to 9 to select the Nth favorited entry.
  • Ctrl + p/n to navigate to the previous/next page.
  • Ctrl + Alt + S to open settings.
  • / to search.
  • F to (un)favorite a highlighted item.
• Search uses case-insensitive regex.

Install from source

A note on versioning:

• The master branch and 1.4.x tags support GNOME 45.
• The pre-45 branch and 1.3.x (or earlier) tags support GNOME 40-44.

Build

cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ && \
  git clone https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history.git clipboard-history@alexsaveau.dev && \
  cd clipboard-history@alexsaveau.dev && \
  make

Restart GNOME

Alt + F2 then type r.

Install

gnome-extensions enable clipboard-history@alexsaveau.dev