Is there any potential for making this extension compatible with GNOME on Wayland? Right now it loads properly, but nothing shows up in the menu.

Haven't had a chance to look at the code myself, but I think that would be a nice addition

Let me elaborate, if the person is running GNOME and Wayland, it will cause the shell to freeze/lag every time the extension checks the clipboard.

It'd be nice to add support for new Gnome 3.18 found in Fedora 23 Beta.

As a feature request to make this extension more security friendly, it would be good to have an option to blacklist data that is copied from password managers into the clipboard and/or remove data from the clipboard when an application clears it.

It does sound complicated to look into this given:

1. the clipboard doesn't identify which application pasted the data
2. another application might change the clipboard content before the password manager clears it after a timeout

For example, applications like KeePass remove the password on the CLIPBOARD after 30 seconds. However, this extension will keep that data and store it its cache/registry file.

Similarly, and issue was logged for GPaste: Application blacklist needed. The solution there, while not ideal, was to add an extra key binding to pop the item out.

It might, at minimum, be possible to detect if the clipboard data is cleared and honor that.

Current workarounds with manual intervention by user

• Private mode
• Clear history

In the extension's context menu, there's the Clear history menu item, but I think a Clear clipboard option next to it would prove useful. Clearing the data currently stored in clipboard (as well as its corresponding entry in history) would benefit privacy, among other things.

Thanks.

Steps to reproduce

1. activate private mode > grey icon
2. suspend to ram
3. resume > white icon

Private mode is activ, but the clipboard list shows the last entries.

Fedora 24, Gnome 3.20

How to remove...
-- private mode (not just disable, but remove the toggle switch)
-- dropdown icon to the right of the clipboard icon.

How to remove both of these?

Thanks

I tried installing it just by turning the slider to 'ON' on firefox. Pops up the 'Install' dialog, I press install but nothing happens. I clone this repository and move it to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions and do alt+f2 -> r and go to gnome tweak tool to select it but it's not there.

Other extensions work perfectly fine and install with no issues.

Antergos 64bit
Gnome 3.22.1

It would be so great if a control click on a clipboard item would offer to trim the item from, e.g., tab characters or from double blanks, etc

What is the purpose of the instruction let that = this; ?

Hi, if possible please add qrcode options. Sample https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/tree/master/clipboard-qr@wrouesnel

Can this sync / add from primary selection?

The favorite entries will be always in the list os items.

Hi,
I used clipIt (https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/clipit/) on Unity, but after I switched to gnome I found this extension.
Only one feature, that I need here, is to store a persistent value into the history list. I have a special character in my name and it's super useful for everyday usage. And I think it would be great for other people too (not only for that name thing).

How it looks like:

ö is the static item

KeePassX clears the clipboard after 10s by default, but the clipboard indicator still saves the content.

It would be really nice if the Clipboard Indicator wouldn't save the content at all.

Following PR #5, we would like to add two features:

1. Allow users to disable the keyboard shortcuts via the settings interface.
2. Allow users to change the default shortcuts via the settings interface.

Only after this is implemented we'll upload a new version to e.g.o, because we don't want to force the shortcuts on all users, as they might collide with other shortcuts they have configured.

This would integrate better with GNOME Shell way. Also less mouse moves/clicks.

Look at what happens when you add or remove a favorite application in the Shell dock to see it in action.

Notification on copy might be a good visual aid but in other cases not preferred - is there a simple way to turn it off?

I've recently pieced together an extension to toggle menus (credit to you for some of your code from this extension that I used), but in testing and trying to figure out how to toggle the menus, I found that with 'Keyboard shortcuts' enabled and the 'Toggle the menu' shortcut specified the menu is only opened, not closed, and doesn't actually toggle. For reference, I'm using GNOME 3.24.

Rather than a check for whether the menu is visible and then opening/closing, you could probably just use the menu toggle method in the _toggleMenu function:

_toggleMenu: function() { this.menu.toggle(); }

I wasn't sure if it made sense to create a pull request for such a small change, or if there's a legacy reason for the code such as the toggle only being added since a particular version of GNOME, though I get the impression it's been there for a while.

Hey!

The keyboard shortcuts in your extension refuse to work after Gnome's lock screen is activated, either manually or after a certain time. Curiously, they start to work after the Gnome Shell is reloaded (Alt+F2 and then "r").

What's the best way to debug this issue?

Using Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 (with off. gnome 3 ppa) and the latest version of your extension, installed via https://extensions.gnome.org/.

Shell version: 3.12.2
Extension version: 8

Best wishes!

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Hi,

a strange bug: when using Remmina (RDP client) to connect to a terminal server from a secondary monitor, the full screen session is opened on the primary monitor (instead of the secondary).
If I disable Clipboard indicator extension, all is OK.

I have managed to get Remmina and Clipboard indicator working together by switching on and off Private mode, several times (and emptying the history) ! ? ! ? !

[Not sure if there are any vim users here ]

The "+" register usually has the clipboard contents. After cycling through entries with the extension, it ends up empty. Gedit does work correctly. Wonder if you investigated this?

Thanks

Im using Debian 8.4 and installed your extension from extensions.gnome.org.
When I delete the history of clips, close my laptop lid, open it up again later the history is filled again. This is critical concerning passwords that were in the history.

Found a strange issue:

Using the arrow keys (i.e. up / down) to navigate the history list randomly stops working. Once it stops working, you need to manually move the mouse to the menu to select an item from the history list.

I haven't figured out how to trigger it to fail yet... :-(

Let me know if there is any debugging I can do to help track it down.

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 17.10
Release:        17.10
Codename:       artful
> gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.26.1

Hi,
I would like to give the italian translation for your clipboard extension.
I hope you will appreciate it. :)

Cya!

it.tar.gz

I'd love to be able to set my own keyboard shortcut. If this is already available, I haven't discovered it yet.

The last entry in the history will not deleted.

Sometimes, we might want to re-use a clipboard item again and again, but eventually it will disappear from the stack. I think a better behavior would be for the last items used to go to the top of the stack. Maybe you can make an option for this.

I have been using your extension for ages - love it! However, I've had a continual problem with my gnome-shell "locking up": the mouse moves fine, but focus is lost and I cannot do anything except Ctrl-Alt-F4, log into a tty and try to kill the problem

There's only one situation that leads to this problem. I'm a big user of remmina (ssh and RDP manager) and the only way this problem occurs is when I'm in a remmina session, and I click on my clipboard to grab some line out of history. When the problem occurs, the clipboard dropbox doesn't disappear - it stays present after I attempt to click out of it - and I cannot paste the content into the remmina window, I cannot "swoop" out to change desktops, I cannot change applications, etc.

By getting onto a tty, I can either "gnome-shell -r" or kill remmina - either fixes the problem.

So far I've been thinking there was some bug in remmina causing this (and reported it as such but it can't be duplicated), but I've suddenly realised the problem always involves clipboard too. So it could be either an interaction between remmina and clipboard - or it actually could be clipboard - and it's just that I spend so much time in my SSH sessions inside remmina, that statistically it "feels like" remmina's involved

Assuming this isn't a known problem, is there anything I could do to try to debug this to find the root cause? I've seen this since Fedora-21 (I'm on Fedora 23 now) with Gnome of course. BTW, this isn't continual, on a good day I can not see this problem - but some days it triggers 2-3 times (and of course in all cases there are hours of me sitting in a remmina session cut-n-pasting out of clipboard without any issues)

Thanks! Living without your extension is NOT an option ;-)

So one can temporary disable the clipboard monitor, for the same reason private mode exists on browsers ;)
A 'disabled' (50% transparent) icon could indicate the 'off' state.

If the popup menu is shown, allow the user to navigate between different entries with the arrow keys, and select an option with the ENTER key.

This should include the non-clipboard entries, like 'clear history' and 'settings'.

Hello friends,

There's a neat feature in terminator that enables autocopying any selection to the clipboard and I was wondering if it would be possible to generalize it to the entire desktop environment through our beloved extension here.
Please let me know what you think :)

Cheers!

Nothing happens when I try to open the extension's preferences through Tweak Tool or extensions.gnome.org

I can see these messages with journalctl -f:

gnome-shell-ext[8547]: JS ERROR: TypeError: imports.extensionPrefs is undefined
unknown[8547]: Execution of main.js threw exception: JS_EvaluateScript() failed

I'm running Gnome 3.22.2 on Debian sid.

First thing: should make sure this is indeed at all possible.

Currently, the indicator only handles the CLIPBOARD selection.
The indicator should be able to manage the PRIMARY selection as well.
This has to be designed appropriately, and the interface should not conflict with current behavior (I would like not to mix the 'CLIPBOARD' registry with the 'PRIMARY' registry).

Any suggestions as to how the interface should look and behave, are more than welcome. :)

Hello

Thanks for this useful extensions.
I tried to set the history size to 500 so I changed the values in prefs.js

this.field_size = new Gtk.SpinButton({
adjustment: new Gtk.Adjustment({
lower: 1,
upper: 500,
step_increment: 1

and in extensions.js to

let MAX_ENTRY_LENGTH = 500

So with GNOME Tweak Tool I can set the history size up to 500 but if I close the settings screen and reopen it, the history size is back to 50. How to change history size the right way?

Thx for helping out here.

It shows up only sometimes, and get's stuck on screen often after pressing f12 or f11. It is broken. Most of the time it stays in the notification tray so I can't see what I just selected with f12 or f11.

Add a keyboard shortcut that will show/hide the clipboard indicator menu.
The shortcut should be configurable from the settings interface.

Hey,

after the recent update of your extension on the gnome's extension site, some graphical elements in the Gnome Shell are distorted, have a look here and here.

Using Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 with Gnome 3.12 (and some 3.14 packages from the off. Gnome 3 repo in Launchpad). The theme is called Numix and is easily installable with this little app.

Best!

Hello, I translated this extension in greek, where can I upload the archives?

Pasting on applications context menus as well as by using CTRL-V works fine. It pastes the topmost string on clipboard-indicator. However, if you use middleclick for pasting it behaves differently. Then the last copied string is pasted (even if another one is selected in clipboard-indicator)

I have 50 items in the clipboard, and I can't see them all because the bottom of the popup menu is beyond the bottom of the screen. It would be great to set the max height or make the popup menu scrollable.

Could you add translation support ?

Hello

Would it be possible to have a search function integrated into the extension? Would be a nice thing if there is a huge amount of data kept in the history.

Thx for considering.

When I log in to my session, the extension duplicates the entries that were left in previous session, but is not only one duplicate, it duplicates many times

Steps to reproduce:

• Ctrl + F11
• Ctrl + V

If you do it quickly, it will paste current entry instead of previous. If you wait a couple of seconds, it works correctly.

There is a delay when going to previous/next entry, not sure why.

I have many texts saved from several restarts and weeks whereas it's very useless for me because I work now on things completely different compared to weeks ago.

It's a keep-privacy enhancement too.

I raised a bug on the Arch bug-tracker which I have discovered is due to this extension. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48229.

Basically, if this extension is running and you close a KDE app then it delays for about 10 secs before closing and finally prints out a message:

QClipboard: Unable to receive an event from the clipboard manager in a reasonable time

This ticket follows a suggestion on e.g.o to display a popup notification whenever the user copies something to clipboard.

Ever since the last update a notification pops up whenever something is copied into the clipboard. It can be a bit annoying, especially for frequent copy/pasting. It would be great to be able to disable that from the extension options.
Great work on the extension by the way. I can't live without it now :)