The most popular, reliable and feature-rich clipboard manager for GNOME with over 1M downloads.

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

• Highly customizable
• Supports both text and images
• Allows pinning items to top
• Includes a "private" mode
• Has configurable shortcuts
• Keyboard control

• Use arrows to navigate
• v to paste directly from menu
• p to pin item
• <Delete> to delete an item

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>/[email protected]

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

$ gnome-extensions enable [email protected]

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

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

Note: I have very little time to maintain this project, so expect long (months) of response time. Apologies in advance.