Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Application Spotlight: Parcellite

After getting a few comments on my post about NCDU I've decided I'm going to start doing a few posts a month with the topic of "Application Spotlight". Basically I am going to feature applications I use on my Linux desktop every week that I feel haven't seen enough attention in the FOSS world to date.

Today I would like to talk about a light weight clip board manager called:



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A clipboard manager is one of those small things I have that make using my Linux desktop more enjoyable (it is also one of the things I miss the most when sitting down in front of someone else's computer). A clipboard manager essentially just saves the last couple of dozen lines you have saved with ctrl+c:


If you can't think of any situations in which a tool like this is useful I ask you to simply use it for a few days and you will find a few. I like parcellite because in addition to being stable it is also light weight, it's installation leaves a fairly minimal footprint (just a few GTK things).

Parcellite is also fairly configurable:


All in all I believe Parcellite is an excellent piece of software. It is almost always one of the first things I install while setting up a newly installed Linux distro. Give it a try and let me know what you think of it.

~Jeff Hoogland

5 comments:

  1. I've been using Clipit, which was forked from Parcellite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkclipit/). It's one of my "must have" pieces of software. Have you tried it? And, if so, how does Parcellite compare to it?

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  2. Jeff,

    Please do more posts like this, they are a great way to contribute to knowledge-sharing.

    Thanks

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  3. Well, I'll be looking forward to these posts

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  4. I used to use Parcellite too, and I tried all the others I could find; glipper, klipper, etc. but I missed features that were not there.
    Finally I decided to try and write my own, also in GTK+ (and Python). It's coming along well, I use it everyday.

    Features are:
    Clips saved in a SQLite database.
    History is sortable different ways.
    Small "Action Window" allows creating, editing and manipulating clips, has a spell checker.
    Simple plugin architecture uses python scripts. Exisitng plugins (15) sort lines several ways, remove/replace characters, shorten URL's, post on Pastbin, etc.
    On feature I particullarly wanted was to collect everything copied to clipboard into one clip, while feature is toggled on.
    I have lots more ideas and improvements planned too.

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  5. Forgot to mention my clipboard manager can save long-term snippets in categories (user specified, also icon). Both clips and snips can have a title that shows in menu instead of the clip/snip it's self.

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