📋 Clipboard Indicator

The most popular, reliable and feature-rich clipboard manager for GNOME with over 2M downloads.

This extension is also packaged by the community for many popular Linux distros — search your package manager.

🧰 Features

• Image support — Copy and paste images in addition to text
• Pin items — Keep important clipboard entries at the top of the menu
• Search — Find clipboard entries with text search, including regex
• Edit entries — Modify existing text entries
• Tag entries — Add custom labels to organize your clipboard
• Keyboard shortcuts — Open/close menu, cycle through entries and activate actions without touching the mouse
• Auto-clear history — Schedule automatic clipboard cleanup at regular intervals or at boot time
• Private mode — Temporarily pause clipboard history when working with sensitive data
• Exclude apps — Prevent clipboard tracking when specific applications are in focus (e.g., password managers)
• Highly configurable — Many more settings to control UI & behavior

In-Menu Keyboard Controls

• Use arrows to navigate
• <Enter> to select an item
• <Delete> to delete an item
• v to paste directly from menu
• p to pin item
• t to add a tag
• h to preview image
• e to edit entry

Terminal support

Pasting from the menu works by sending Shift+Insert to programs or Ctrl+Shift+Insert to terminals.

• To use with tmux, add this to your .tmux.conf:

  # Add Ctrl Shift Insert to paste for clipboard-indicator
  bind -T root C-S-IC {
    run "tmux send-key \"$(xclip -d ${DISPLAY} -o -selection clipboard)\""
  }
  

• To use with Ghostty, add this to your .config/ghostty/config:

  # Add Ctrl Shift Insert to paste for clipboard-indicator
  keybind = ctrl+shift+insert=paste_from_clipboard
  

Known issues

• Copying large images causes a short freeze
• Pasting via menu doesn't work for every application

📦 Install from source

Installation via git is performed by cloning the repo into your local gnome-shell extensions directory (usually ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/):

$ git clone https://github.com/Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator.git <extensions-dir>/clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com

After cloning the repo, the extension is practically installed yet disabled. In order to enable it, run the following command:

$ gnome-extensions enable clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com

✅ GNOME Version Support

Depending on your GNOME version, you will need to install the following Clipboard Indicator versions:

• GNOME 46 and above:
  • Use latest version
• GNOME 45:
  • v57
• GNOME 42-44
  • v47
• GNOME 40-41
  • v39
• GNOME <40
  • v37

⌨️ Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome.

Please follow these guidelines when contributing:

• If you want to contribute code, your best bet is to look for an issue with the label "Up for grabs"
• DO NOT open unsolicited PRs unless they are for updating translations
• Look at the list of previous PRs before you open a PR, if your PR conflicts with another, it will be rejected
• If you have a feature idea, open an issue and discuss it there before implementing. DO NOT open a PR as a platform for discussion

Release Cycle

This project loosely follows the release cycle of GNOME. That means it will usually receive 2 updates a year, close to the release of a new major GNOME version. If there are features you'd like to implement or suggest, it is advised to start the discussion a month or two before a GNOME release.