# sentriz/cliphist

Wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia

Repository: https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cliphist
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: clipboard-manager, sway, wayland, clipboard, hyprland, wayfire, wl-roots
Last push: 2026-06-08T11:45:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 68/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 27, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1914, "days_push": 86, "days_rel": 326, "gap_med": 180.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1530, forks 46 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.225667+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: clipboard-manager, wayland, wl-roots, sway, hyprland, clipboard-history, dmenu, rofi, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- sentriz/cliphist (main) score 68

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.225667+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:26.158098+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.225667+00:00, sha f108bee228c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.