TIP ! Clipboard for Sway / Waybar - comfortable way

[CooSee]

hello,

you need to emerge dev-lang/go, gui-apps/wl-clipboard and gui-apps/rofi-wayland <<< from guru overlay.

additional info howto handle multiple repositories look here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8 ... ml#8659032

and download cliphist source code from (you need dev-vcs/git) :

git clone https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist.git

installing cliphist is easy >>> go install go.senan.xyz/cliphist

copy just generated cliphist (bin) from ~/go/bin to /usr/bin

or you can try with downloadable binary at (never tried myself):

download from https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist/releases/tag/v0.5.0

or via go install go.senan.xyz/cliphist@latest

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entries for sway config:

! thanks to Manjaro - best implementation, imho !

# if-exists autostarts

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    exec {

    '[ -x "$(command -v wl-paste)" ] && [ -x "$(command -v cliphist)" ] && wl-paste --watch cliphist store'
    '[ -x "$(command -v wl-paste)" ] && [ -x "$(command -v cliphist)" ] && wl-paste --watch pkill -RTMIN+9 waybar'
    }

# Launch // Clipboard ##

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bindsym $mod+y exec $clipboard

change it to whatever available key you want !

# clipboard history

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    set $clipboard cliphist list | rofi -dmenu -m -1 -font "Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font 9" -p "Select item to copy" -lines 10 -width 35 | cliphist decode | wl-copy
    set $clipboard-del cliphist list | rofi -dmenu -m -1 primary -font "Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font 9" -p "Select item to delete" -lines 10 -width 35 | cliphist delete

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entries for waybar config:

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"custom/clipboard",

to enable custom entry

and (icon hex is f0ea):

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"custom/clipboard": {
    "format": "",
    "interval": "once",
    "return-type": "json",
    "on-click": "swaymsg -q exec '$clipboard'; pkill -RTMIN+9 waybar",
    "on-click-right": "swaymsg -q exec '$clipboard-del'; pkill -RTMIN+9 waybar",
    "on-click-middle": "rm -f ~/.cache/cliphist/db; pkill -RTMIN+9 waybar",
    "exec": "printf '{\"tooltip\":\"%s\"}' $(cliphist list | wc -l)' item(s) in the clipboard\r(Mid click to clear)'",
    "exec-if": "[ -x \"$(command -v cliphist)\" ] && [ $(cliphist list | wc -l) -gt 0 ]",
    "signal": 9
    },

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this is my rofi (user) config in .config/rofi/config.rasi:

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configuration {

  timeout {
      action: "kb-cancel";
      delay:  0;
  }
  filebrowser {
      directories-first: true;
      sorting-method:    "name";
  }
}

@import "paper-float"

that's it

now you get an icon on waybar - middle click will delete the history - it'll look like this:

https://0x0.st/s/lN5FTfA_FzePBGW7zzzKyw/H4Vs.png

sway/waybar sometimes doesn't work correctly after reloading config via mod+shift+c - better restart your computer and you're good to go

EDIT:

this is my first ebuild - works for me, i hope it'll work for you too, no guarantee

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# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=8

inherit go-module git-r3

EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist"

DESCRIPTION="ClipBoard History Manager for Wayland"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist"

LICENSE="GPL3"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64"

BDEPEND=">=dev-lang/go-1.19"

RDEPEND="gui-apps/wl-clipboard x11-misc/xdg-utils"

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

RESTRICT+="strip"

src_unpack() {
   git-r3_src_unpack
   go-module_live_vendor
}

src_compile() {
   go build || die
}

src_install() {
dobin cliphist
}

save it as cliphist-9999.ebuild

placed the ebuild in gui-apps/cliphist/cliphist-9999.ebuild in my local overlay >>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Creating_a ... repository

greetings (...programs)

[fedeliallalinea]

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