Welcome to papier
The clipboard's history for Linux. Everything you copy, text, rich text, images and files, kept and searched as you type, then put back in a keystroke. One small native program that lives in the notification area and comes up in a few milliseconds.
Download for Linux - Source on GitHub
Or with Nix: nix profile add github:sachahjkl/papier · MIT
Features
- Every kind of copy: Text, the HTML a browser or an editor gives with it, images (PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, BMP, SVG) and files copied in a file manager
- Fast to reach: One process for the session, in the notification area
- Search as you type: Every word you type narrows the list, case ignored
- Pinned entries: Ctrl+P pins an entry
- Secrets stay secret: What a password manager marks as a secret (KeePassXC and others
- The clipboard kept: When the program you copied from quits and the clipboard empties, papier puts the last entry back
- Light on the machine: 0 % CPU at rest, hidden or shown
- Yours to set: How many entries, for how long, what to record, the size limit, the primary selection, the colours (its own or one of twenty palettes), the size of the window and of its text
- A command line too: papier list, get, copy, pin, delete, clear
Download
The archive
One program for Linux x64. Unpack it and run ./papier install: a launcher in the applications menu,
~/.local/bin/papier, and the start with the session. Needs a Wayland compositor with data-control
(Hyprland, Sway, KDE Plasma, river, niri…), Vulkan, fontconfig.
papier-0.3.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
Nix
The flake builds papier from source with everything it needs: nix run github:sachahjkl/papier, or
add packages.x86_64-linux.default to your configuration.
nix profile add github:sachahjkl/papier
Then bind a key, for Hyprland: bind = SUPER, V, exec, papier toggle. The README says the rest.