BSD Ports

x11/cliphist 0.6.1_1 DragonFly

Wayland clipboard manager

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv3
Categories
wayland, x11
Package size
677.2 KiB, 1847.8 KiB installed

Description

cliphist is clipboard history "manager" for wayland

  • write clipboard changes to a history file
  • recall history with dmenu / rofi / wofi (or whatever other picker you like)
  • both text and images are supported
  • clipboard is preserved byte-for-byte
    • leading / trailing whitespace / no whitespace or newlines are preserved
    • won't break fancy editor selections like vim wordwise, linewise, block mode
  • no concept of a picker, only pipes

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.7.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11/cliphist0.6.1_1none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11/cliphist0.7.0_16 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-20
OpenBSDwayland/cliphist by name0.7.0 newestno data-Volker Schlecht <[email protected]>-
HardenedBSDx11/cliphist0.7.0_14 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11/cliphist0.7.0_14 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install cliphist

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/cliphist && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The cliphist port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing