![]() The Add/Remove actions and scroll buttons at the bottom of the Actions display window make it easy to move through the list of commands and manage them. This makes it easy to insert a word or phrase or even a detailed block of text without having to first copy from a source and then paste it. Pressing the Control key and clicking ClipIt’s tray icon creates actions and commands from keyboard shortcuts. I also get a tremendous amount of use out of the Actions feature. It only abbreviates their appearance in the display window. This doesn’t cut out the omitted display of saved contents. Again, the default is 50 with no ending point.Ī particularly nifty option is the ability to omit items in the beginning, middle or end of the items display. Similar to the save history options, I can set the character length of saved items. I can show items in a single line or in reverse order. The number of ways ClipIt lets me slice and dice saved snippets of text is impressive. This makes it possible to save thousands of items in the clip list. The selection windows have no ending points. The default is 50 for history and 20 for menu. Even the History preferences provide numerous useful options.įor example, you can select how many items to save in the history list and the number of items in the menu. The Miscellaneous settings let you show indexes in the history menu, save URLs, capture hyperlinks only and confirm before clearing the history. If you select the Use Primary Selection, you can also check the option to synchronize clipboards For instance, you can turn off/on the Ctrl-C copy command. Feature HeavyĬlipIt comes with an ample kit of settings in the Preferences menu. But in Parcelite, the left click option lets you edit the list, select an item or clear the saved queue. Taking redundancy a bit too far, left clicking provides the identical results. Besides the usual About, Preferences and Quit options, you also can list from a displayed list of saved clips items and then paste that choice directly into another application. But ClipIt provides much more access from its right click menu. But ClipIt offers more features and preferences to select.įor example, both apps place an icon in the system tray or panel. So its look and feel are very similar to its predecessor. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shantzu/clipitĬlipIt is a fork of the now deceased Parcelite clipboard manager. ![]() But this sequence gives you the idea of what the process entails. The commands might differ slightly for your particular Linux flavor. Many Linux distros provide this outlet as an alternative to their own resident software repositories.Ī third method of acquiring ClipIt without manually installing it from a compressed file that needs compiling for your specific distro is to add a repository entry to your package manager. Ubuntu Linux users are in luck, as ClipIt is already integrated into Ubuntu’s Software Center application delivery system.Īnother relatively painless way to get and automatically install ClipIt is through the Synaptic Package Manager. ![]() ![]() Getting ItĬlipIt is still too young to be available conveniently in many Linux desktop package managers. But it is by far no lightweight in its performance. It is still a lightweight app in terms of its structure and resource consumption. It brings some very nifty features to the current version recently released in May as 1.4.1-1. Newcomers, however, have revived this app with new versions released as ClipIt to replace the aging Parcelite.ĬlipIt is a wonderful replacement clipboard manager. But Parcelite, by far my favorite choice, is now unsupported by its retired developers. Other popular Linux alternatives include Glippy, Glipper and Pastie. Parcelite is perhaps one of the more well-known clipboard managers. Clipboard managers provide a volatile memory queue. Most applications that store selected text in memory unload the storage when the application closes. A weakness in the Linux desktop makes a clipboard manager a necessary add-on tool. Anyone who works constantly with bulk text needs a reusable copy-and-paste buffer to store multiple snippets of text. ![]()
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