Klipper – Linux Clipboard Tool

Klipper is a clipboard utility for Linux/Unix K Desktop Environment (KDE). Klipper can save multiple lines in its clipboard and you can also associate clipboard text to a specific application. The functionality is similar to the standard Windows clipboard functionality, but with extensive features.

• To open Clipper, click the Clipper icon in the KDE panel. Klipper – Clipboard Tool window appears.
  

• Select Configure Klipper. Configure – KDE Panel window appears. This has General, Actions, and Shortcuts tabbed regions. Some of the common options are listed below:
  

• Popup menu at mouse cursor position – Select this option if you want the popup menu to open at the mouse cursor position when a regular expression is matched. If this is not selected, popup menu will open in the KDE panel.
• Save clipboard contents on exit – This option allows you to save clipboard contents across sessions.
• Remove whitespace when executing actions – This removes any whitespace before or after clipboard contents. This is useful if you have entered an URL in a clipboard and it has whitespaces. Removal of whitespaces ensures that the URL will not error out when opened in a web browser (as long as the URL is valid).
• Prevent empty clipboard – Klipper inserts the most recent entry in the clipboard, if this option is selected.
• Ignore Selection: If this option is selected, Klipper ignores X Window System selection (in which text is placed in the clipboard area just by highlighting it).
• Clipboard selection behavior – Selecting ‘Separate clipboard and selection’ and selecting ‘Ignore Selection’ will make only Klipper selection available in the clipboard.
• Timeout for action popups – Sets the time the popup screen for matching expressions will be displayed in the KDE panel or at the mouse cursor position.
• Clipboard history size – Number of items stored in the clipboard.

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