sentriz/cliphist

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1530 stars · 46 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

cliphist is a clipboard history manager for Wayland that stores clipboard changes (text and images) to a history database. It works by piping through any picker like dmenu, rofi, wofi, or fzf to recall, delete, or manage clipboard entries.

Use cases

• manage clipboard history on wayland
• recall previously copied text and images
• store clipboard changes with wl-paste watch
• pick old clipboard items with rofi or dmenu
• preserve clipboard content byte-for-byte including whitespace
• clear or compact clipboard history database

When to choose

• you use a Wayland compositor like Sway, Hyprland, or Wayfire
• you want a picker-agnostic clipboard history tool that pipes to dmenu/rofi/fzf
• you need image as well as text clipboard history
• you need byte-exact clipboard preservation

When to avoid

• you are on X11 rather than Wayland
• you want a GUI clipboard manager with built-in picker UI
• you need clipboard sync across multiple machines

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools desktop-applications developer-tools cli clipboard-manager wayland wl-roots sway hyprland clipboard-history dmenu rofi command-line linux

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