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neydroydrec
Asked: 2012-02-03 04:08:59 +0800 CST

How to increase clipboard size?

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If I try to copy-paste a large amount of text (from Firefox to LibreOffice), the amount of text thus copied is truncated. What setting / application imposes this limit (I assume it is the DE)? And is there anyway to increase the size of the clipboard?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use GLIPPER which is Klipper's Gnome Cousin. Click here Glipper (Install link)

    Some of the features are:

    • Will not truncate your data. At least I tested by copying from my Blog a whole post that was 3387 words total.

    • You can have a maximum of 1024 entries (Klipper can have 4096). But I think that having 100 is enough.

    • Very easy to use, just highlight some text and done. You do not need to copy it. Just highlighted it.

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    After installing it you need to logout/login to make it show on the panel.

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  2. I've been using parcellite for a while and I'm quite happy with it.

    In the preferences menu, behavior tab, the Max Data Size (MB) option seems to address your problem (according to the tooltip, 0 means no limit)

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  3. You can try to install GPaste. It's a clipboard manager for gnome-shell that let you set some options.

    I can't check it easily (no Gnome-Shell installed), so feel free to downvote or notify me if it doesn't work.

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