cliphist
A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install cliphist
About cliphist
cliphist writes each clipboard change to a history file and lets you recall entries through whatever picker you prefer, such as dmenu, rofi or wofi. Both text and images are supported.
Clipboard contents are preserved byte for byte, including leading and trailing whitespace and newlines, so pasted code and formatted text come back exactly as copied. It suits Wayland users on compositors such as Sway or Hyprland who put together their own desktop from small tools.
Strengths
- Works with any dmenu-style picker
- Supports images as well as text
- Preserves clipboard contents byte for byte
Limitations
- Wayland only
- No interface of its own; needs a picker and some manual setup
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- sentriz
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Wayland users on minimal compositors who want clipboard history in their existing picker
- Categories
- Clipboard managers, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to cliphist
Compare allSoftware that can replace cliphist for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard supports both Wayland and X11 and brings its own CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, though installation expects Cargo and systemd.
clipse
A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.
clipse shows history in its own configurable terminal interface instead of a dmenu-style picker, and needs some setup to hook into a desktop.
clipcat
A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.
clipcat is a Rust daemon with CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but it requires configuration.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.
GPaste provides a daemon, GTK 4 window and CLI sharing one history, but it is built for GNOME rather than minimal compositors.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ is a graphical GPL-3.0 manager with tabs, image support and scripting, running on Linux, Windows and macOS.
cliphist as an alternative
Listings that name cliphist as an alternative.
Clipboard
A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal.
cliphist is a Wayland-only command-line history that feeds dmenu-style pickers and supports images, rather than a cross-platform copy and paste tool.
clipmenu
A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.
cliphist keeps the dmenu, rofi or wofi picker workflow and supports images, but runs only on Wayland rather than X11.
Greenclip
A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.
cliphist works with rofi, wofi or dmenu on Wayland only, and supports images while preserving clipboard contents byte for byte.