Maintain a history of your copy/paste entries using Glipper, a Clipboard Manager for Gnome

There is always something useful available in the form of gnome-applets. Earlier, I wrote about  Deskbar, that lets you handle almost anything using a single text-box. Now, its this great clipboard manager, glipper, for all of those who(like me) have done the mistakes of overwriting something important they copied and wished for a way to switch to the previous copied text.

Glipper, the clipboard manager, does this for us by maintaining a clipboard history. For those who are not aware of this terminology, Clipboard can be considered as a kind of memory space where the data we copy(Ctrl+C or otherwise) is saved temporarily until overwritten by the data from next copy command.

Glipper is a gnome-panel applet. I don't think its available in Fedora. Ubuntu users can install it either by clicking this link(troubleshoopt apturl) or running the following command in the terminal.

[shredder12]$ sudo aptitude install glipper

Once installed, you will have to add it to the panel. Rightlick on the gnome-panel, select "add to panel" and add "Clipboard Manager"

Like any other clipboard manager, it maintains a history of the recent clipboard text messages. Just press Ctrl+Alt+c and you will see a drop down box on the screen, its the clipboard history. Just click the one you want and it will become the current entry on the clipboard, i.e it will be pasted if we press Ctrl+V.

Not just this basic feature, the greatness of glipper lies in its plugin power. There are nearly 5-6 plugins available, some of which could be very useful, e.g the network one. It can sync the clipboard history across various systems on which glipper is installed.

This might be very useful if you have multiple systems on your desk. Although, in such scenarios I would prefer using Synergy. In addition to a clipboard sync, it makes all the systems accessible from a single pair of keyboard and mouse.