Knowledge Base (Posts about clipboard)

My new choice of clipboard manager: parcellite

bgstack15 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:24:00 GMT

I used CopyQ, but there is some sort of bug in QT-based projects where it doesn't accept keyboard input; it's like it doesn't receive focus until you minimize or maximize or some baloney that finally got me irritated enough to do something about it. Maybe I'll check CopyQ in the future, in case the bugs are ever solved or something. I have never researched this with any results; perhaps I don't know how to explain the phenomenon.

Anyway, I settled on parcellite for the time being. Let's face it; I'm not doing any more research so this is going to be my long-term clipboard solution. It's gtk3-based, which is my current stack anyways. It has all the options I want: a popup menu of history options, with pinnable entries (called persistent entries in this tech), and is already packaged for Devuan.

Notes on other clipboard managers

It appears that diodon and gpaste are forks or spiritual successors to parcellite. Gpaste is the freedesktop-ified thing with a daemon and complicated features that just seem extraneous, yet is still missing features I want.

Raw notes for research process

determine goals
1. ctrl+shift+z pulls up short history menu, approx 5.
2. full history available from a window from a menu option
find options
1. checking https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Clipboard?useskin=vector
2. already packaged for Devuan is a huge plus
3. packagable for devuan is acceptable
test top option(s)
1. diodon: works basically. No "full history" dialog, and no pinning of items.
2. gpaste: way more complicated, but has an editable history, from gpaste-client ui. SCARY "upload" feature that does what?
3. parcellite (github or sourceforge)

My current desired config

Here is my current ~/.config/parcellite/parcelliterc file as of the time of this writing.

files/2025/listings/parcelliterc (Source)

	`[rc]`
	`RCVersion=1`
	`use_copy=true`
	`use_primary=false`
	`synchronize=false`
	`save_history=true`
	`history_pos=false`
	`history_x=1`
	`history_y=1`
	`history_limit=25`
	`data_size=0`
	`item_size=5`
	`automatic_paste=true`
	`auto_key=true`
	`auto_mouse=false`
	`key_input=false`
	`restore_empty=true`
	`rc_edit=true`
	`type_search=true`
	`case_search=false`
	`ignore_whiteonly=false`
	`trim_wspace_begend=false`
	`trim_newline=false`
	`hyperlinks_only=false`
	`confirm_clear=true`
	`current_on_top=true`
	`single_line=true`
	`reverse_history=false`
	`item_length=50`
	`persistent_history=true`
	`persistent_separate=false`
	`persistent_on_top=false`
	`persistent_delim=\\n`
	`nonprint_disp=false`
	`ellipsize=2`
	`multi_user=true`
	`icon_name=parcellite`
	`menu_key=`
	`history_key=<CTRL><SHIFT>Z`
	`phistory_key=<CTRL><ALT>Z`
	`actions_key=`

Progressive web app with share target for Android

bgstack15 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:43:00 GMT

I have known for a while that "progressive web apps" (apparently only supported in one browser) can be "installed" as an "app" on a mobile device, and they can be the target for receiving shared items! I finally bothered to learn how to do this with my flask app stackbin!

There's a large number of steps required, and I ripped pretty much all of this (minus flask-specific troubleshooting) from reference 1. The main parts include:

Add file manifest.json on the top level virtual path of your application. I had to add some jinja2 templating to handle the static prefix for my app.

enable paste on website with javascript

bgstack15 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:42:58 GMT

I'm directly quoting/ripping off https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32784487/script-to-enable-paste-on-website/68414487#68414487 here. Because it's incredibly useful.

I found this simple script did work [for enabling "paste" on website]:

document.addEventListener('paste', function(e) {
  e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  return true;
}, true);

Which was found here: https://www.howtogeek.com/251807/how-to-enable-pasting-text-on-sites-that-block-it/

Edit: May need to stop propagation for keydown as well for some websites.

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
  e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  return true;
}, true);

Paste that into the console of devtools (F12) and carry on with business.