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I'm looking for a good program for managing clipboard history on the Ubuntu desktop used primaraly for software development. Ditto is exactly what I need, except it wont run on Ubuntu.

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Try glipper, a GNOME clipboard app, and parcelite, a GTK+ clipboard manager. Both should be available to install from the repository.

If you're using unity or gnome shell, clipit is a fork of parcellite with AppIndicator support (thanks @pydave).

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parcelite's hotkeys worked better for me. I had to check a box in preferences to make it pull selected text in addition to ctrl-C'd text – Arthur Ulfeldt Oct 9 '09 at 18:20
glipper is lacking good search – Arthur Ulfeldt Feb 25 '10 at 20:05
I've found glipper very crashy, does it work fine for you? – J. Pablo Fernández Jun 8 '10 at 5:44
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If you're using unity or gnome shell, Clipit is a fork of parcellite with AppIndicator support: clipit.rspwn.com – pydave May 4 '11 at 19:06
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ClipIt is a parcelite fork with Ubuntu menu integration.

sudo apt-get install clipit
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Why isn't Diodon mentioned here?

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One complication is that diodon isn't in the official repositories, at least as of precise 12.04. – nealmcb Jun 20 '12 at 14:51
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Just to be complete, there's also the older "xclipboard".

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Under KDE (Kubuntu, etc) there's "Klipper".

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Try anamnesis.

I created it because there wan't an alternative for Ditto that works on Ubuntu, and especially because I needed to be able to search the clipboard history.

Note it is still under development and it needs more tests, but is working fine for me.

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Clipit can search history – Alexey Dec 6 '12 at 13:48
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Keepboard provides various ways to manage clipboard history.

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