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clipit(1)

clipit1

Lightweight gtk+ clipboard manager

Usage

clipit [OPTION]

Overview

ClipIt is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager.

ClipIt features a clipboard CLI. Unrecognized options and the contents of your standard input get copied to your clipboard. See CLI EXAMPLES.

Options

-?, --help

Show help options.

-d, --daemon

Run as daemon. Use this mode if you just want ClipIt to keep your clipboard and primary contents safe.

-n, --no-icon

Do not use status icon.

-c, --clipboard

Print clipboard contents.

-p, --primary

Print primary contents.

Notes

Actions

ClipIt's actions perform commands using the contents of your clipboard. "%s" in the command is replaced with the clipboard contents.

Cli examples

Put text in the clipboard

echo "copied to clipboard" | clipit
clipit "copied to clipboard"

Put text in the clipboard and print the clipboard contents

echo "copied to clipboard" | clipit -c

Hotkeys

The available hotkey modifiers are <Ctrl>, <Alt> <Shift>, <Release>, <Meta>, <Super>, <Hyper>, <Mod[1-5]>

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 10 (Buster): the text shown here
  • Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)

Author

Maintained by Cristian Henzel <[email protected]>. Forked from parcellite, which was written by Gilberto "Xyhthyx" Miralla <[email protected]>.

From clipit 1.4.5+git20241103-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.