Clippy

About

Clipboard managers tend to be either a cramped tray menu or a full window that steals focus. Clippy is neither: a strip of visual tiles summoned by a global shortcut, dismissed by clicking away, showing real previews of what you copied — inline images, thumbnails for videos, PDFs and documents, type badges for the rest.

It stays out of your way as a paperclip in the menu bar or system tray, and everything is stored locally in SQLite. The one thing that leaves your machine — only if you opt in — is end-to-end-encrypted LAN sync, so your clipboard follows you between a Linux desktop and a Mac.

On Linux, Clippy runs on any Wayland compositor that speaks layer-shell and data-control: COSMIC and the wlroots family (Sway, Hyprland, River, Wayfire…) today. KDE Plasma on Wayland implements both protocols and should work too — untested so far. GNOME exposes neither, so it's out for now.

Highlights

• One shortcut, one panel — tiles for recent text, images and files, with keyboard navigation and quick-select
• Pin, search, tabs — pinned clips survive pruning; custom colored tabs organize what you keep
• Type filters — show only text, images, video, PDFs, archives… with per-type badges
• Plain vs. rich paste — keep formatting or strip it, per paste
• Encrypted LAN sync — pair devices and share text, images and any file across OSes
• Local-only storage — SQLite under your data dir; nothing leaves the machine unless you pair it

# Ubuntu / Pop!_OS / Debian — APT repository
curl -fsSL https://davidboulay.github.io/Clippy/install.sh | sudo bash