cliphist

clipboard history "manager" for wayland

• synchronise your two clipboards (primary and the other one)
• write changes in either to a history file (reset on boot)
• recall history with dmenu (for example)

required: wl-clipboard-rs or wl-clipboard

usage

start the daemon

$ cliphist listen
this will listen for changes on either clipboard, make sure they're in sync, and write to the history.
call it once per session - for example in your sway config

select old item

$ cliphist select | dmenu -l 10 | cliphist copy
bind it to something nice on your keyboard