CopyQ

CopyQ is a multi-platform, freely distributed and open source software project that has been designed from the ground up to act as an advanced clipboard manager on GNU/Linux and Windows operating systems. It supports text and image file formats, and includes editable and searchable history.

Features at a glance

Key features include a customizable tray menu, filtering with matched text highlighting, a variety of system-wide keyboard shortcuts, including the ability to paste as plain text, copy next or previous lines of text, edit the clipboard or display the main window. Scripting support and an advanced command-line interface are also included.

With CopyQ, users will be able to save items in new tabs and tree, as well as to store text, images or HTML documents in various formats. You can quickly browse through items, sort items, create new ones, remove them, copy or paste to different tabs, add notes to items or quickly paste to a focused window from the main window or the system tray icon.

The program allows users to fully customize its appearance, including fonts, colors and transparency, ignore clipboard entries that have been copied from certain windows or if they contain some specific text, as well as to apply custom or automatic commands to highlighted clipboard items.

Comes with a command-line interface

Another interesting feature is an integrated command-line interface, which comes with numerous commands, allowing experienced Linux users to integrate it better into the desktop environment, as well as to make use of its advanced features.

Supported operating systems and availability

The application is written in the Qt GUI toolkit, which means that it’s cross-platform, supporting the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. On GNU/Linux, it is available for download as source and binary archives for the Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo and other distributions. Both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures are supported at this time.

What is new in this release:

• Smarter tab name matching (ignore key hints '&')
• Fixed omit passing global shortcuts to widgets
• Fixed autostart option on Ubuntu
• Fixed window geometry saving and restoring
• Fixed reading binary input on Windows
• Fixed clearing configuration

What is new in version 2.4.9:

• Added new light theme
• Added scriptable function focused() to test main window focus
• Customizable shortcuts for tab navigation
• Extended item selection
• Fixed tab expiration and updating context menu
• Fixed passing text to command from action dialog

What is new in version 2.4.8:

• New command to show main window under mouse cursor or at a position with custom size
• Hide clipboard content when "application/x-copyq-hidden" is "1"
• "Copy next/previous item" command waits for clipboard to be set
• Fixed updating window title and tray tool tip on X11
• Fixed modifying multiple commands in Command dialog
• Fixed implicit date to string convertions

What is new in version 2.4.6:

• Fixed crash when removing command
• Fixed encryption/decryption selected items
• Fixed reading from standard input
• GUI fixes for high-DPI displays

What is new in version 2.4.4:

• Option to choose tab for storing clipboard
• Fixed overriding mouse selection (Linux/X11)
• Fixed window title updates from user commands
• Fixed toggling window visibility with Qt 5
• Minor GUI improvements and user command fixes

What is new in version 2.4.3:

• Plugin for tagging items
• Plugins can provide script functions and commands
• Improved automatic commands execution
• Fixed gradients, transparency and other style improvements
• Fixed decryption with newer version of GnuPG
• Fixes for Qt 5 version

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Send input data to execute()
• Better clipboard encoding guessing
• Set tab icon from commands using tabicon()
• Fixed window title encoding on Windows
• Fixed restoring window geometry
• Performance fixes
• Various bug and usability fixes
• New logo

What is new in version 2.4.1:

• Added scriptable classes File and Dir
• Added scriptable function settings() for saving custom user data
• Improved dialog() command
• Windows: Qt translated strings bundled with application
• Fixed %1 in command
• Fixed building with tests and Qt5

What is new in version 2.4.0:

• Separate dialog for user commands and global shortcuts
• Search for item by row number
• Command highlighting
• More shortcuts can be mapped on Windows and X11
• New "copy" command to copy from current window to clipboard
• New "dialog" command to show dialog with custom input fields
• Fixed crash on log out on Windows
• Fixed clipboard monitoring on Windows
• Fixed argument encoding from client on Windows
• Fixed log output when printing messages from multiple processes
• GUI fixes

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Initial OS X support
• Configuration moved into installed directory in Windows
• Change language in configuration
• New tool bar with item actions
• Option to apply color theme in tabs, tool bar and menus
• Allow to match items using a command
• Focus output item of the last executed command
• Allow to cancel exit if there are active commands
• Removed option to hide menu bar (inconsistent behavior)
• Fix showing lock icon in encrypted items

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• Synchronize items with files on disk
• Faster tab loading and saving (data format was changed; only backward compatible)
• User can limit size of text items
• Opening external image editor fixed on Windows
• New logo and website
• Lot of other fixes

What is new in version 1.9.3:

• Item and tab encryption (using GnuPG)
• FakeVim plugin for editing items (Vim editor emulation)
• Drag'n'drop items from and to list
• Improved appearance for notes
• Improved search bar
• New GUI for application and system-wide shortcuts
• Option to unload tabs after an interval
• Fixed item sizes and disabling font anti-aliasing
• Major bug fixes (mainly for Windows) and performance improvements

What is new in version 1.9.1:

• Notifications -- customizable theme, timeout and position on screen
• Optional notification for new clipboard content
• Autostart option on Linux
• Reset empty clipboard to previous content
• More user-friendly item editor
• Optional font antialiasing
• Changed layout of configuration dialog
• Other fixes

Requirements:

• Qt