Clipboard managers for Linux ?

[John Desmond]

Salutations, gentlefolk

Back in 45/148 I asked a 'dumb gnubie hard disk installation question' 
and added a request for clipboard manager info, which Donn answered:

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Message: 9 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:10:54 +0200
From: Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dumb gnubie hard disk installation questions
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On Wednesday, 22 October 2008 21:33:16 jdesmond at fast.net wrote:

 > > Second, is there any Linux clupboard manager equivalent to ClipMate
(www.thornsoft.com for details thereon) ? ?Used to that productivity tool,
miss it now.


I don't know about ClipMate, but KDE comes with (or it can be installed
quickly) 'klipper' which is pretty damn productive!

Also remember that in most desktop managers simply *selecting* text 
copies it
to a kind of voodoo clipboard in the sky and you can paste that by
middle-click (usually clicking the mouse wheel does this). So you get
ctrl-C/V and Select/Middle-click which gives you two clipboards right 
off the
bat.

\d

 >>


OK, Klipper came installed with my system.  Now, here's what you can do, 
additionally, with ClipMate:

Set up a couple of dozen 'clipboards', each of effectively infinite 
capacity, and move items between them - ie, spend a few hours websurfing 
and copy everything interesting into 'stuff', then sort it into the 
'addresses' clipboard, the 'URLs' clipboard, the 'projects08-16' 
clipboard...

You can 'View' the entire contents of a clipboard item, and do basic 
editing of it.

ClipMate doesn't discard the CRLFs, keeps outlines, etc, as you laidout them

You can hit a button, and paste the items in a clipboard, one after 
another, in order.

Items in a clipboard stay where they are - if an important notes is 
'five-from-the-bottom' in the 'Project-14' clipboard, they'll be there 
no matter how many times they're 'pasted'

A clipboard window stays open, once it's opened - no need to mousedown 
to bottom of screen and reclick after every paste.

Only items 'copied' go to the clipboard - doesn't get clutteredup with 
random deleted bits

As I said, more at thornsoft.com.  I hope someone will produce a Linux 
equivalent soon.


Anyway, for now, is there any way to change the font size and background 
color in Klipper?

Yours, John Desmond