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My FOSS terminal clipboard manager is now at version 0.8.2! (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone! I'm the developer of a clipboard manager that I know many of us Linux users here might know, called just The Clipboard Project.

I've spent the past couple months working on a bunch of speed optimizations, little fixes, and a really cool new feature for Linux only: asynchronous X11/Wayland clipboard synchronization. What that means is that you can copy stuff in the background and your CB clipboard will pick it all up automatically.

If that sounds awesome, then you can get the brand-spanking-new 0.8.2 version at https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard or this post's link (thanks, Lemmy!)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, I've seen this project a while ago, and it looks really well done. However, I'm not totally sure what the usecase is for it.

Why would I use this over cp file ../file?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not the author of the project but this has nothing to do with copying files around. Instead it's a clipboard manager, meaning it's to add things to your clipboard and then paste them elsewhere. So an app to manage your ctrl-C - ctrl-v

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it does actually also copy files around. That may be cool and useful, but is why I don't want to use it. I don't want to accidentally do that instead of normal clipboard stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is actually no reason to use it over cp file ../file, because that's not what it does. Instead, you can save something "for later" as if the cp command had a memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And can it be used via ctrl+xcv commands?