---
name: "wmcliphist"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wmcliphist"
version: "2.1-4+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wmcliphist"
---

# wmcliphist(1)

provides a history to X11 selections

## NAME

wmcliphist — provides a history to X11 selections

## SYNOPSIS

**wmcliphist** \[**-h**\]  \[**-v**\] \[**-n** *num\]  \[***-c** *col\]  \[***-i** *num\]  \[***-s** *size\] \[***-b** *clipboard\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the program* **wmcliphist**.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**wmcliphist** is a dockable application which provides a history for the last few selections made in the X11 Window System.

Note, that most of **wmcliphist**'s features are accessed by installing a configuration file .wmcliphistrc into your $HOME. Find a well documented example in /usr/share/doc/wmcliphist.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v**

  Print version.

- **-n num**

  Set the number of items to keep in the history. Default is 10.

- **-c col**

  Set the color for locked items. Default is red.

- **-i num**

  Choose wmcliphist icon antialiasing: If you have a midtone background provide num=0, for dark backgrounds choose num=1 and for light backgrounds num=2.

- **-s size**

  Choose wmcliphist icon size, must be one of 16, 30, 40 or 60 (default).

- **-b clipboard**

  Choose clipboard to use, must be one of  PRIMARY (select copies, middle click pastes, default), SECONDARY (not used), or CLIPBOARD (Ctrl+C copies, Ctrl+V pastes)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sebastian Ley sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de for the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.