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Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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79 points timeoperator | 20 comments | 22 Aug 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.849s | source | bottom
1. bornfreddy ◴[22 Aug 25 17:24 UTC] No.44987189[source]▶
One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective.

You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus.

I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?

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2. mnmalst ◴[22 Aug 25 17:28 UTC] No.44987238[source]▶
I use a popup like that myself a lot. Clipman on xfce supports that but no pinning.
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3. sbene970 ◴[22 Aug 25 17:36 UTC] No.44987317[source]▶
The "Clipboard History"[0] Gnome extension also does this quite well in my experience. I also recently switched from Windows 11 (to Ubuntu), very happy so far.

Edit: Supports pinning and binding it to Super+V as well!

[0] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4839/clipboard-histor...

4. ASalazarMX ◴[22 Aug 25 17:37 UTC] No.44987326[source]▶
Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates.

How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?

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5. nine_k ◴[22 Aug 25 17:38 UTC] No.44987343[source]▶
Yes, I this is the feature I miss most; I'm almost ready to try to remember how to write in C.
6. SweetSoftPillow ◴[22 Aug 25 17:57 UTC] No.44987571[source]▶
I configured copyq to work exactly like this, so it's doable.
7. Gracana ◴[22 Aug 25 18:20 UTC] No.44987872[source]▶
I looked at mine, and it only has entries from my current login session.
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8. pluc ◴[22 Aug 25 18:45 UTC] No.44988239[source]▶
Yup as others have said, super+v for me invokes greenclip's rofi plugin which gives me a nice themable clipboard history overlay.
9. baq ◴[22 Aug 25 20:20 UTC] No.44989345[source]▶
I’ve used ditto for this since before windows gained this capability. It also has an ignore list (e.g. keepass lives there) and a few other niceties which make it one of the first tools I install on a windows box (not very often anymore, granted).
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10. garciansmith ◴[22 Aug 25 20:34 UTC] No.44989494[source]▶
KDE's default clipboard manager lets you summon a list (and you can change what shortcut to invoke it and do things like use a shortcut to move to the next clipboard entry) and edit entries. It doesn't let you pin them though, I think.
11. pluc ◴[22 Aug 25 20:39 UTC] No.44989530[source]▶
Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this
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12. hkon ◴[22 Aug 25 21:03 UTC] No.44989790[source]▶
I love that feature too. I replicated it with this. https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist

In addition to what is shown here, I added a job that runs every 5 minutes which prunes the history so that I can comfortably copy sensitive information as well.

13. bornfreddy ◴[22 Aug 25 21:06 UTC] No.44989822{3}[source]▶
That, and it only has about 10 of them. But anyway, if someone can access your clipboard manager then that's not very good...
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14. Yasuraka ◴[22 Aug 25 21:46 UTC] No.44990245[source]▶
https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history

Can show last N entries and has a search bar as well, so you can click type away and cycle through results with TAB. Supports pinning as well.

15. magackame ◴[22 Aug 25 22:03 UTC] No.44990404{3}[source]▶
Sometimes you have broken websites/apps so you gotta copypaste. Sometimes they even have fields where you can't paste either (K9mail on android) (I cry in 64 char password).
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16. pluc ◴[22 Aug 25 22:31 UTC] No.44990705{4}[source]▶
It'd be an interesting feature for a password manager to issue a system call to purge clipboard history on copying a password. Lots of password managers aren't just browser add-ons but full desktop apps
17. KetoManx64 ◴[23 Aug 25 01:52 UTC] No.44992262{4}[source]▶
If someone has access to your computer to access your clipboard history, you're already been pwned and the clipboard with random scattered entries is the least of your worries.
18. allen_fisher ◴[23 Aug 25 02:58 UTC] No.44992690[source]▶
I'm using Gnome. On Gnome, you could just install "Clipboard Indicator" or something like this in Gnome Extension and set shortcut as "Super+V". It's pretty easy, I think.
19. Balinares ◴[23 Aug 25 09:52 UTC] No.44994725[source]▶
> I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux

Selection bias aside, Linux clipboards with history have existed for close to two decades, possibly more.

20. Incipient ◴[24 Aug 25 02:34 UTC] No.45000818[source]▶
Ditto is unparalleled. Ugly, but unparalleled. I've been using it for ages and every time I use a system without it I feel it's absence.