I was surprised by how useful it’s to have a Clipboard Manager support in Raycast in my MacOS setup, so this is my attempt to have the same behavior in Ubuntu Linux, using GNOME with Wayland.
I was surprised by how useful Clipboard Manager support in Raycast is on MacOS, so now I’m trying to get the same functionality on Ubuntu with GNOME and Wayland.
Requirement: uLauncher.
Install GPaste:
sudo apt install gpaste-2Install the Clipboard uLauncher Extension: https://ext.ulauncher.io/-/github-friday-ulauncher-clipboard
In the Extension settings, I did the following changes:
- Clipboard Manage: selected
GPaste - Copy keyword: changed to
cl
Now when I run uLauncher I type cl and I can select an item from the clipboard history, or type some words to filter the history to narrow down the items. Once an item is selected, I can paste it with Ctrl+v.
What didn’t work?
Automatically pasting when selecting a history item
I thought this would be simple, but after checking the Clipboard extension docs on Copy hook and doing more research, I realized it’s not so simple and could lead to security risks.
I tried using wtype, but I got an error Compositor does not support the virtual keyboard protocol. I also found some other alternatives, but I didn’t test them yet: libei, wlrctl and ydotool.
GPaste primary selection setting
I tried enabling Primary selection affects history and Synchronize clipboard with primary selection under Clipboard synchronization, but they messed with my copying and pasting links in WordPress, so I left them off.
CopyQ
I started using CopyQ, but for some reason the clipboard history feature wouldn’t work for me.
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