Clipboard Indicator GNOME Shell Extension

You can navigate and manage your clipboard history entirely via keyboard shortcuts while the menu is open:

• Arrows: Navigate through entries
• <Enter>: Select an item
• <Delete>: Delete an item
• v: Paste directly from menu
• p: Pin item
• t: Add a tag
• h: Preview image
• e: Edit entry

The extension's menu pasting mechanism works by sending Shift+Insert to standard applications or Ctrl+Shift+Insert to terminals. To enable this functionality in specific terminal environments, use the following configurations:

tmux

Add the following to your .tmux.conf to bind Ctrl+Shift+Insert to pasting via xclip:

bind -T root C-S-IC {\n  run "tmux send-key \"$(xclip -d ${DISPLAY} -o -selection clipboard)\""
}

Ghostty

Add the following to your ~/.config/ghostty/config:

keybind = ctrl+shift+insert=paste_from_clipboard

# tmux configuration
bind -T root C-S-IC {
  run "tmux send-key \"$(xclip -d ${DISPLAY} -o -selection clipboard)\""
}

To install the extension manually, clone the repository into your local GNOME shell extensions directory (typically ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/). Note that the directory name must be clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com.

After cloning, you must explicitly enable the extension using the gnome-extensions CLI.

$ git clone https://github.com/Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator.git <extensions-dir>/clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com

$ gnome-extensions enable clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com

Ensure you are using the correct version of Clipboard Indicator for your GNOME environment: