clipse
A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.
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About clipse
clipse is a clipboard manager with a terminal user interface. It keeps a history of what you copy and lets you browse it and paste earlier entries from a TUI rather than a graphical window, which suits keyboard-driven Linux desktops.
It is written in Go and is configurable. The project is active on GitHub with a changelog that users are asked to check when moving to a new release.
Strengths
- Terminal interface that fits keyboard-driven setups
- Configurable behaviour
- Maintained changelog for release upgrades
Limitations
- Unix only, no Windows or macOS app
- Needs some setup to hook into a desktop
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download from GitHub.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- savedra1
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Linux users on tiling window managers who want clipboard history in a terminal
- 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 clipse
Compare allSoftware that can replace clipse for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
clipcat
A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.
clipcat replaces the terminal interface with a Rust daemon, CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but has no ready-made graphical window.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard offers CLI, terminal and graphical front ends on Linux for X11 and Wayland, installed with Cargo and systemd.
cliphist
A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.
cliphist is Wayland-only and shows history through dmenu-style pickers rather than a terminal interface, with image support.
Greenclip
A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.
Greenclip uses rofi for selection instead of a terminal interface and ships as a static binary with no dependencies.
clipmenu
A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.
clipmenu is a small X11-only history manager that relies on dmenu or rofi and ships a systemd user service.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ adds a graphical window with tabs and a scripting API, and runs on Windows and macOS as well as Linux.
clipse as an alternative
Listings that name clipse as an alternative.
Clipboard
A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal.
clipse shows clipboard history in a configurable terminal interface for Unix systems, with no Windows or macOS app.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.