Hi there, To search in the clipman popup, you must use visual inspection, and choose your selection using the mouse or arrow keys. It is not possible to narrow down the options by typing a substring. KDE's klipper provides this function, but unfortunately it is bundled with unacceptable bloat. (Firefox provides a similar function to narrow down the selection in their Password Manager). The way that I am frequently using clipman is to start it up with the shortcut key, and then to select a recently used item using the arrow keys. It would be really helpful to be able to type part of the string, for which a case-insensitive match is done, and the choices are reduced accordingly. I would happily keep 500 items of clipboard history if they were searchable, but this means a problematic scrolling menu in the current interface. I have clipman 1.1.3.
Hi Andrew, I'm keeping this on a features-to-write list, it will need a dialog from where you are able to perform different actions on the history, like search for example. Bye Mike
*** Bug 8276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Postponed for clipman 1.4.x. Current version is 1.3.x and provides a dummy GtkMenu widget to interact with the history entries.
What will need to be done is a replacement of the menu against a popup window based on GtkWindow, that will allow for more interaction.
Hi Andrew, hi Mike, glad to see that there is progress. I'd also very much like to see this feature in the future. Huge timesaver. Best, Thomas
I'm waiting for this feature too, since it is hard to find specific items in the long clipboard list. [Please add a Voting option to the bugzilla]
I just received the 4.12 release. Time to see what's going on with feature requests. As for clipboard managers, I nearly tried all of them. xfce4-clipman, parcellite and clones like clipit, glipper, gpaste, ... Some projects are idle or forked-only and forgot. If not going for klipper again. None of them was matching my (little) requirements. So I try to give clipman another try and ask if some important improvements could be added: * Search as you type: Opening the history list and starting to type should start with some expression search and filter the results, being able to step to the next result (where parcellite finally fails). * Tagging some history items as "sticky" to remain on top of the list. I heavily use the clipboard manager when dealing with different X applications such as browser windows/tabs, mail-clients, irc, banking etc. I need some sticky items for pasting like addresses. I usually have some large $HISTSIZE settings for bash, .viminfo, pentadactyl and then also the X clipboardmanager.