Clipit (1) Linux Manual Page

ClipIt – Lightweight GTK+ Clipboard Manager

Synopsis

clipit [OPTION]

ClipIt is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager.

ClipIt features a clipboard CLI. Unrecognized options and the contents of your standard input get copied to your clipboard. See CLI EXAMPLES.

-?, –help: Show help options.
-d, –daemon: Run as daemon. Use this mode if you just want ClipIt to keep your clipboard and primary contents safe.
-n, –no-icon: Do not use status icon.
-c, –clipboard: Print clipboard contents.
-p, –primary: Print primary contents.

ClipIt’s actions perform commands using the contents of your clipboard. "%s" in the command is replaced with the clipboard contents.

Put text in the clipboard: echo "copied to clipboard" | clipit
clipit "copied to clipboard"
Put text in the clipboard and print the clipboard contents: echo "copied to clipboard" | clipit -c

The available hotkey modifiers are <Ctrl>, <Alt> <Shift>, <Release>, <Meta>, <Super>, <Hyper>, <Mod[1-5]>

Maintained by Cristian Henzel <oss [at] rspwn.com>. Forked from parcellite, which was written by Gilberto "Xyhthyx" Miralla <xyhthyx [at] gmail.com>.