We believe that one of the greatest inventions of mankind is copy paste. The ability to take a piece of text from some random place and inserted to another nutso random place is a huge time saver, mankind would still be ages behind if computers wouldn't have this feature. Just imagine having to type every command every URL, every block of code you read, it would be a huge waste of time. And so being such an important feature, copy paste deserves a tool of its own for managing all the important text you copied. These types of tools are called clipboard managers. There are lots of options for every operating system.
And one good free one for a boon to is called clipping and it can be installed with sudo apt install, clip it a good scenario for using quake is to run clip it in it By default clip it occupies a terminal window. But with the help of quake, we just hide it away. The tool is automatically added to the startup applications. So it will start the next time you reboot. In order to invoke clip it, hit CTRL ALT H, or click the clipboard manager in the menu bar. The first time it starts it warns you that it stores data in plain text.
So it might not be safe to use if other users use your account. Currently, it contains only the latest clipboard in element. Let's do a quick example of its usage. We get the content of the dot profile file. And let's say we want to copy some lines of text and run them in another terminal. For example, we might want to update the PATH variable then to solve The dot bash RC file, and then to update the PATH variable again.
Instead of copying the content again, from our file, we just hit CTRL ALT H, and choose what do we want to paste from our clipboard history. This is a very basic example. Clip. It mostly comes in handy when you work long hours on your computer and need to pay something that you copied from website hours earlier. It comes with a default history size of 50 items and it will show you the less than items in your floating window. You can increase this limit in the settings with clip it you can copy and paste as many times as you want without losing any data.
It's like a time machine for your clipboard.