Is there a clipboard manager with killring-like functionality?

3 years ago by eyolf to c/linux

I'm currently using Klipper, and it's fine, I suppose, but I miss the ability to cycle through the previous clips with simple keypresses, like in the emacs killring (the only thing I miss from my very brief experimentation with emacs back in the day).

pglpm 2 points 3 years ago

If you right-click on the Klipper tray icon, select "Configure..." and then "Shortcuts", you can assign shortcuts to move back and forth in the kill ring, and to paste. I have assigned S-v for backwards and S-C-v for forward. Then the usual C-v will paste. The tray icon also shows you the current selection (and the ones above and below) in the killring, as you move through it.

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eyolf 2 points 3 years ago

That's more or less what I do, but it's not quite killring'y. The workflow I'm looking for is: paste as usual with ctlr-v, then press some shortcut to replace the pasted with the previous item in the "ring", without having to go through the backwards process of first enabling klipper, then choosing item, and only then entering it.

But I'll play around with it some more and see what I figure out.

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pglpm 1 point 3 years ago

Gotcha. Yes, haven't found anything that allows that specifically. But in my case I don't need to enable klipper; it's always active. No matter which windows I'm in, pressing C-v will paste whatever it's in the clipboard; whereas pressing e.g. S-v C-v will choose the previous item in the clipboard and then paste it.

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pglpm 1 point 3 years ago

PS: there's also another functionality of Klipper that I use from time to time: you can make the whole "killring" appear, and choose the entry you want to paste with the mouse: as you click it it's entered. This is also bound to a key (in my case S-w) and works no matter which window I'm in.

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eyolf 2 points 3 years ago

Which functionality is that? I haven't found anything that enters the selected item directly, without having to C-v it afterwards. Besides, the mouse is a thing I want to avoid… I played around with some other functions, however, and I found out that cycling through the history items works fairly well for me.

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pglpm 2 points 3 years ago

PS: actually with Klipper I can go back and forth in the clipboard history too. I don't know if this is possible in Emacs. For example, if I go back two history steps, and then realize that I went too far by one step, I'd type H-v H-v H-C-v C-v. The H-C-v is "undoing" the last H-v.

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pglpm 1 point 3 years ago

For the list of all clipboard items, ready to be chosen: Klipper tray icon, right-click → Configure clipboard → Shortcuts→ "Open Klipper at Mouse Position". You can choose from the list either with the up/down keys, or with the mouse.

Klipper's item-cycling doesn't require more keystrokes than Emac's. For example, what I achieve in Emacs with C-y M-y M-y I achieve with Klipper with H-v H-v C-v (no need to operate with the mouse). H is the "hyper" or "super" key – but the keys are fully customizable.

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ramanga 1 point 3 years ago

I've played with clipster and a rofi menu to access previous entries IIRC

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