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Clipboard Managers
Starting method: manual (exec-once)
Clipboard Managers are useful tools that allows one to manage their copied items, be-it texts or images.
Some common ones used are copyq, clipman and cliphist.
clipman - Utilizes Wayland with wl-clipboard support and stores text only clipman
cliphist - Utilizes Wayland with wl-clipboard and can store both images and text cliphist
##cliphist
Start by adding the following lines to your ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
exec-once = wl-paste --type text --watch cliphist store #Stores only text data
exec-once = wl-paste --type image --watch cliphist store #Stores only image data
Do note that any of the above lines can be disabled based on your needs
To bind cliphist to a hotkey and display it under rofi or dmenu, again head over to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
#For rofi users
bind = SUPER, V, exec, cliphist list | rofi -dmenu | cliphist decode | wl-copy
#For dmenu users
bind = SUPER, V, exec, cliphist list | dmenu | cliphist decode | wl-copy
The binds mention above correspond to SUPER+V to access the clipboard history
For further info, please refer to the repository mentioned above
##clipman
Start by adding the following line to your ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
exec-once = wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store --no-persist
If you wish to use it as a primary clipboard manager, use this instead
exec-once = wl-paste -p -t text --watch clipman store -P --histpath="~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json"
And also make sure to create a file named clipman-primary.json in ~/.local/share/clipman-primary.json
Now bind the clipman like this:
#For rofi users
bind = SUPER, V, clipman pick -t wofi
#For dmenu users
bind = SUPER, V, clipman pick -t dmenu
So on and so forth. For further information, please refer to the repository mentioned above