Clipboard Manager
⚠️ AI-generated write-up, to be revised later. Project built with AI (Claude) — I don’t know Rust. A personal experimental tool, not a serious project.
One thing I missed after moving from Windows to Ubuntu was Win+V — the built-in clipboard history popup. Ubuntu has nothing like it out of the box, so I built one.
Press Ctrl+Alt+C anywhere and a popup shows everything you’ve recently copied — click an item and it’s pasted instantly. It handles both text and screenshots.
Some things it does:
- Paste on click, with a separate button for pasting into terminals (Ctrl+Shift+V)
- Pin items so they’re never evicted from history
- Label and color-code items (right-click a row) so important ones stand out
- Search through history from the popup
- Image support — copied screenshots show as thumbnails, deduplicated by hash, stored on disk and never loaded into RAM until pasted
- Works on both X11 and Wayland (via the RemoteDesktop and GlobalShortcuts portals)
Built with Rust and GTK4. Installable with a one-line script or a .deb from releases — no Rust toolchain needed.