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Clipboard manager for COSMIC™

screenshot of the applet

The goal is to make a simple yet fast clipboard history, with a focus on UX, rapidity and security.

There is a quick settings popup when you right click the icon.

Install

Warning

The applet is available in the cosmic-store, however, this version will currently not work (#171).

The reason is because this applet use a wayland protocol (data control protocol) which is not available for sandboxed client. The only way is to build from source. For this you need to install rust, just, and follow the the build instruction.

Logs

journalctl -p 3 -xb --user _EXE=/usr/bin/cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager | less
  • -p 3 means priority error
  • -x add information
  • b means since last boot

Testing bundle

# install
flatpak install --user clipboard-manager.flatpak
# run specific branch
flatpak run --branch=testing io.github.cosmic_utils.cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager
# to be sure cosmic-panel will launch the wanted version
flatpak uninstall --user io.github.cosmic_utils.cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager//master
# or verify the commit with
flatpak run io.github.cosmic_utils.cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager -V
# uninstall testing repo and app
flatpak remote-delete --user cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager-origin

Build from source

Instructions are in this file.

Contributing

See this file.