swayclip - clipboard manager for Wayland compositors

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Good write up on the github page explaining why I would bother with it, the short version included:

In Wayland, whatever app you copied something from is the one actually holding onto that clipboard content, the compositor itself doesn’t store it. This means if you close that app, whatever you copied disappears too. swayclip fixes this by keeping its own copy of your clipboard history, and only steps in to “hold” the clipboard once the original app closes or exits.

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Dude this has bothered me many times. I had to reopen whatever app or page held on to the content. Bah. What a bad way of doing it, no?

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But… but my security :(

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I… Had no idea it worked this way but it makes so much sense. This actually explains so much about an issue I’ve been having

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