Simple clipboard manager inspired by Pastebot for macOS.

• Simple app window to view history and enable/disable the paste popup and history monitoring
• Global shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+V) to open poup showing clipboard history
• Click an item to paste it into the currently selected text area/field
• Start typing to filter the clipboard history
• Press enter to paste the first item, or use the arrow keys to select past clipboard items
• Press escape or switch to another window to dismiss the popup

• Sort out uinput permissions

The app launches using the X11 GDK backend so we can monitor the clipboard even without the app window open. We hook into GNOME shell and register a global key binding that opens the history popup. When the user selects a list item, it is set as the current clipboard item, the window is closed, and after 0.1s, Ctrl+V is triggered, pasting the text the user picked into the currently selected widget.

• Python 3
• PyGObject

mkdir build; cd build
meson ..
ninja
[sudo] ninja install

Make sure the uinput module is loaded and /dev/uinput is readable/writable by your user (used to trigger the paste action).

Now open GNOME Clips and flip the switch to on in the header bar!