halen

Clipboard manager inspired by ClipJump . UI is a popup notification showing one clipboard history entry at a time. Navigate the history by holding Ctrl and press V or C. When Ctrl is released, the current entry will be copied to the clipboard, a fake Ctrl+V will be sent and the notification closed. The notification is spawned by holding Ctrl and pressing V twice. (Ctrl+V+V).

I put a demonstration of the program on YouTube.

installation

$ make
# make install

dependencies

Build dependencies (Arch Linux):

pacman -S pkg-config libx11 libxtst libxext libxfixes fontconfig libxft

Also a C compiler and GNU/Make is needed.

Runtime dependencies:

• xclip

usage

~/.config/halen/config

font = monospace
font_size = 16
background = #FCFFDF
foreground = #000000
count_color = #3322DD
anchor = 5
position = mouse
margin = 30 10
max_line_length = 80
max_lines = 10

Commandline options:

  -V, --verbose         Enable verbose (debug) logging
  -c, --config FILE     Use configuration file
  -t, --toggle          Toggle keyboard grabs
  -h, --help            Show this help message
      --version         Show version information

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A history file will get created in XDG_CACHE_HOME/halen/history , this is also where cached versions of clips that exceeds the line limits will be stored.

A PID file will get created at XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/halen.pid it contains the PID of the currently running halen process.

Note that halen --toggle can be executed while the program is running, it will use the pid in the pidfile to send USR1 signal which in turn toggle keyboard grabs.

known issues

Program was developed and tested on Arch Linux with a simple X setup with i3wm, it should work on any Linux with X11, but i don't know. Also pretty sure it will not work without modifications on other UNIX based systems.