CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
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Brew install -cask copyq On Debian unstable, Debian 10+, Ubuntu 18.04+ and later derivatives can install stable version from official repositories: sudo apt install copyq # copyq-plugins and copyq-doc is splitted out and can be installed independently.
- CopyQ Clipboard Manager is pretty much the same as other Clipboard Manager tools. It allows users to copy-paste things like access codes or some repeated references in a document. Apart from that, users can also copy and paste images with CopyQ Clipboard Manager.
- CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application. Features: Support for Linux, Windows and OS X 10.9+ Store text, HTML, images or any other custom formats.
Overview
CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs.Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application.
CopyQ is an advanced manager to organize your clipboard. This clipboard manager software creates tabs for saved content, and it lets you copy saved clipboards into other apps. You can use this free application on Windows, Linux and other systems to store images, text, and HTML and different formats. CopyQ is clipboard manager – a desktop application which stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes and allows to search the history and copy it back to the system clipboard or paste it directly to other applications.
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Features
- Support for Linux, Windows and OS X 10.9+
- Store text, HTML, images or any other custom formats
- Quickly browse and filter items in clipboard history
- Sort, create, edit, remove, copy/paste, drag’n’drop items in tabs
- Add notes or tags to items
- System-wide shortcuts with customizable commands
- Paste items with shortcut or from tray or main window
- Fully customizable appearance
- Advanced command-line interface and scripting
- Ignore clipboard copied from some windows or containing some text
- Support for simple Vim-like editor and shortcuts
- Many more features
Copyq Github
Install
To install CopyQ, use the binary package or installer provided for your system.
For unlisted systems, please follow the instructions inBuild from Source Code.
Windows
On Windows you can use one of the following options to install the app:
- Scoop package from the extras bucket.
Using Scoop:
Using Chocolatey:
OS X
On OS X you can use Homebrew to install the app.
Debian 10+, Ubuntu 18.04+, and their derivatives
Install copyq
package.
copyq-plugins
is highly recommended. copyq-doc
available.
Ubuntu PPA
Install and keep CopyQ always up to date by running the following three commands from the terminal:
Fedora
Install copyq
package.
Arch Linux
Install copyq
package.
Other Linux Distributions
Install Flatpak and com.github.hluk.copyq
fromFlathub.
Start the application from menu or with following command:
Using the App
To start the application double-click the program icon or run copyq
.
The list with clipboard history is accessible by clicking on system tray iconor running copyq toggle
.
Copying text or image to clipboard will create new item in the list.
Selected items can be:
- edited (
F2
) - removed (
Delete
) - sorted (
Ctrl+Shift+S
,Ctrl+Shift+R
) - moved around (with mouse or
Ctrl+Up/Down
) - copied back to clipboard (
Ctrl+C
) - pasted to previously active window (
Enter
)
All items will be restored when application is started next time.
To exit the application select Exit from tray menu or press Ctrl-Q
keys in theapplication window.
Read more:
Adding Functionality
To create custom action that can be executedfrom menu, with shortcut or when clipboard changes:
- go to Command dialog (
F6
shortcut), - click Add button and select predefined command or create new one,
- optionally change the command details (shortcut, name),
- click OK to save the command.
One of very useful predefined commands there is “Show/hide main window”.
Read more:
Command Line
CopyQ has powerful command line and scripting interface.
Note: The main application must be running to be able to issue commands usingcommand line.
Print help for some useful command line arguments:
Insert some texts to the history:
Omitting double-dash (--
) in the command above would mean that slash() in arguments will be treated as special character so that
n
is newline character, t
is tab, is slash,
x
is x
etc.
Copyq Clipboard Manager
Create single item containing two lines:
Print content of the first three items:
Show current clipboard content:
Copy text to the clipboard:
Load file content into clipboard:
Create image items:
Read more:
Build from Source Code
To build the application from source code, first install the required dependencies:
- optional on Linux/X11: development files and libraries for Xtst and Xfixes
Install Dependencies
Ubuntu
RHEL / CentOS
Build the App
Change install prefix if needed:
You can now run the built app.
Contributions
You can help translate the application (click the banner below)or help fix issues and implement new features.
Read more:
Copyq For Linux
CopyQ is clipboard manager – a desktop application which stores content of thesystem clipboard whenever it changes and allows to search the history and copyit back to the system clipboard or paste it directly to other applications.
This documentation describes some basic concepts and workflows as well as moreadvanced topics like scripting and application development process.
The Basics
- Basic Usage
- Tabs and Items
- Keyboard
- Images
- Theme
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Known Issues
Advanced Topics
- Sessions
- Pin Items
- Password Protection
- Synchronize with Documents
- Writing Commands and Adding Functionality
- Scripting
- Command Examples
- Script Commands
- Backup
- Scripting API
Copy Quest
Development
Copyquik
- Build from Source Code
- Fixing Bugs and Adding Features
- Source Code Overview
- Translations
- Customize and Build the Windows Installer