Diodon

Aiming to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Unity desktop.

Installing

For Ubuntu based distributes there is an official stable PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y diodon

To install Diodon on other systems download a release tarball from launchpad.

Building

Diodon uses the Meson build system.

git clone https://github.com/diodon-dev/diodon.git && cd diodon
meson builddir && cd builddir
ninja
ninja test
sudo ninja install
# only needed after the first ninja install
sudo ldconfig

The unity scope needs to be explicitly enabled if you want to build it

meson configure -Denable-unity-scope=true

On distributions which do not provide packages for application-indicator building of the indicator can be disabled by adjusting builddir creation command:

meson builddir -Ddisable-indicator-plugin=true && cd builddir

For uninstalling type this:

sudo ninja uninstall

Plugins

If you would like to write your own Diodon plugin please refer to the original blog post. Feel free to add your own plugins to the list below.

Plugin	Description
Features	Additional features for the diodon menu.
Numbers	Number clipboard menu items.
Pop Item	Pastes and then removes the active clipboard item.
Paste All	Paste all recent items at once
Edit	Prompts to edit the active item.

Store clipoard items in memory

Diodon uses Zeitgeist to store clipboard items. Per default Zeitgeist persists all events in a database on the hard disc so it is available after a reboot. If you want to store it to memory you need to set environment variable ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH to :memory: with a command like the following (might differ depending on your setup):

echo "ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH=:memory:" >> ~/.pam_environment

Support

Take part in the discussion or report a bug on the launchpad page.