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Vitor Abella
Asked: 2016-11-17 10:41:38 +0800 CST

Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 [duplicate]

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I'm looking for an application that can copy two or more items and then I can choose one of them to paste. Indeed, it should work on terminal.

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  1. Best Answer

    [Update on May 2020]

    Clipit is now deprecated. The official replacement is Diodon. To download Diodon, you can use the instructions here.

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    Clipit is the best among all.

    sudo apt-get install clipit

    Launch it, one icon will appear on top right where you can choose one of your clipboards.

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  2. CopyQ is a cross-platform, well-designed and fully-featured clipboard manager (my favorite). It features among others a (very handy) command line interface.

    To install it on Ubuntu 18.04+:

    sudo apt install copyq

    To install it on Ubuntu 16.04-:

    • Downloading a .deb file:

      • Download the correct .deb file from github: hluk/CopyQ.

      • Perform installation:

        sudo dpkg -i copyq_*_Ubuntu_*.deb

    Or

    • Using a PPA:

      $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hluk/copyq
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install copyq

    PPA info source: https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ#ubuntu-ppa

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