---
name: "gpaste"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gpaste"
version: "3.14-2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gpaste"
---

# gpaste(1)

A lightweight clipboard manager for the Gnome desktop

## NAME

GPaste - A lightweight clipboard manager for the Gnome desktop

## SYNOPSIS

**\[command \|\] gpaste \[options...\]**

## DESCRIPTION

GPaste is a modular clipboard management system with a fully DBus-based daemon, a CLI client and a gtk+ tray icon.

## COMMANDS

- **gpaste \[history\]**

  Display the history with indexes\

- **gpaste history-size**

  Display this size of the history\

- **gpaste oneline-history**

  Display the history without newlines\

- **gpaste raw-history**

  Display the history (raw) without indexes\

- **gpaste backup-history**

  Backup the current history\

- **gpaste switch-history**

  Switch to another history\

- **gpaste delete-history**

  Delete a history\

- **gpaste list-histories**

  List available histories\

- **gpaste zero-history**

  Display the history with NUL as separator\

- **gpaste add \<text\>**

  Add the text into the history\

- **gpaste add-password \<name\> \<password\>**

  Add the name - password couple to the history\

- **gpaste delete-password \<name\>**

  Delete the password \<name\>\

- **gpaste set-password \<number\> \<name\>**

  Mark the \<number\>th item of the history as being a password named \<name\>\

- **gpaste rename-password \<old name\> \<new name\>**

  Rename the password\

- **gpaste get \<number\>**

  Get the \<number\>th item from the history\

- **gpaste get-raw \<number\>**

  Get the \<number\>th item from the history (raw)\

- **gpaste select \<number\>**

  Put the \<number\>th item of the history into the clipboard\

- **gpaste delete \<number\>**

  Delete the \<number\>th item of the history\

- **gpaste file \<path\>**

  Put the content of the file at \<path\> into the clipboard\

- **command \| gpaste**

  Put the output of the command into the history\

- **gpaste empty**

  Empty the history\

- **gpaste start**

  Start tracking clipboard changes\

- **gpaste stop**

  Stop tracking clipboard changes\

- **gpaste daemon-reexec**

  Reexecute the daemon, for example after upgrading GPaste\

- **gpaste settings**

  Launch the configuration tool\

- **gpaste version**

  Display the version\

- **gpaste daemon-version**

  Display the daemon version\

- **gpaste help**

  Display the help\

- **gpaste about**

  Display the about dialog\

- **gpaste show-history**

  Make the applet or extension display the history\