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The clipboard applet keeps a history of what you copied. Its service table applies everywhere; the applet table applies to that applet only.

clipboard ​

[applets.clipboard]

Clipboard history.

label-formatstringnot set by default

Text beside your icon, with {count} for the number of entries in your history.

preview-charsinteger default 72

How many characters of each clipboard entry you see in its preview, from 8 to 128.

show-when-emptyboolean default false

Keep the chip visible when your history is empty.

tooltip-formatstringnot set by default

What the bar's tooltip reads. {count} is the number of entries held. Unset shows no tooltip.

visibleinteger default 10

How many recent entries the popover shows. Pinned entries don't count.

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The clipboard popoverThe clipboard popover

Click the chip to open the popover. Clicking an entry copies it. Each entry also has Pin and Forget.

Clear history keeps pins. Turning enabled off clears everything, pins included.

[clipboard]

Keep your copied text and PNG or JPEG images in memory until the panel restarts. Content marked secret by a password manager is skipped; copying an existing entry moves it to the top.

capture-imagesboolean default true

Keep copied images in your clipboard history alongside text.

enabledboolean default true

Keep a history of what you copy. Turning this off clears your history, including pinned entries.

limitinteger default 100

How many recent clipboard entries you keep. Pinned entries don't count.

max-entry-kibinteger default 2048

The largest clipboard entry you keep, in kibibytes, from 4 to 2048.

max-total-kibinteger default 10240

How much memory your clipboard history can use, in kibibytes. When it fills up, the oldest unpinned entries are dropped.

For scripts, glimpsectl clipboard list --json lists the entries. Entry IDs change when the panel restarts. See the clipboard commands for the rest.

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