BSD Ports

wayland/cliphist 0.7.0 OpenBSD

clipboard history manager for Wayland

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Volker Schlecht <[email protected]>
Categories
wayland, lang/go

Description

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

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Install

Binary package:

pkg_add cliphist

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/wayland/cliphist && make install

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

Build dependencies 2
Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.