Clipman

This manual describes Clipman version 1.2.0.

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Table of Contents

  1. Введение

  2. Настройки

  3. Поддержка

  4. About Clipman

Введение

Clipman is a clipboard manager for Xfce. It keeps the clipboard contents around while it is usually lost when you close an application. It is able to handle text and images, and has a feature to execute actions on specific text by matching them against regular expressions.

Устройство Буфера обмена

В X11 (на всех Unix-платформах) по умолчанию существует два буфера обмена для переноса данных между окнами. Буфер обмена по умолчанию используется для явных копий (например, при выделении файла и его копировании в буфер обмена), кроме того, существует первичный Буфер обмена, который изменяется при выделении текста (например, при выделении текста в поле).

Clipman handles only the default clipboard, but optionnaly it can also notice the selections. When it is handling the selections, the default clipboard will always be synced with it and contain the same data. By this meaning you can paste with the keyboard what you select on screen.

Начало работы

Clipman is used to keep in history a list of clipboard contents and to restore them. The history is displayed in a menu by clicking on the main icon. Within the menu it is possible to restore a text and to clear the history.

Clipman menu with the history
Shows the menu that popups when clicking the Clipman icon in the Xfce Panel or the notification area

There are two ways to run Clipman. You can select Clipman in the applications menu under the category Utility or type xfce4-clipman on the command-line, or you can add it into your panel. To add a new item in the panel right click the panel and select Add new item....

Настройки

The settings dialog is available under the Properties item in the right click context menu on the main icon. It allows to tweak the history and to edit actions.

General Settings

The following table describes the available options in the General tab of the Settings dialog.

General options
Description of options from the General tab of the Settings dialog

Option

Описание

Автокопирование

Автоматически помещает содержимое первичного буфера обмена с буфером обмена по умолчанию, чтобы можно было вставлять выделенный текст.

Сохранять при выходе

Загружает журнал в начале сессии

Store last copied image

Позволяет хранить в журнале единственное изображение

Ignore selections

Не допускает занесения в журнал содержимого первичного буфера обмена.

Reverse order

Reverse order of the history shown in the menu

Размер журнала

Определяет количество фрагментов в журнале

Clipman Settings (General)
Диалог настроек, вкладка Основные

Action Settings

An action is a pair of a name and a regular expression. Each action can have one or more commands. The support of actions is optional and can be enabled or disabled through the Enable actions option.

To add an action click the Add icon, to edit an action select the action and click the Edit icon or double click the action, and to remove an action select an action and click the Delete icon. By adding or editing an action a new dialog is opened.

To learn more about actions go to .

Clipman Settings (Actions)
Диалог настроек, вкладка Действия

Диалог Действия

У действия есть название, описывающее его шаблон. Также у действия есть хотя бы одна команда, которая также имеет описательное название. В команде можно использовать совпавшие фрагменты текста.

The actions are always matched against text selections unless specified otherwise. When the box Activate only on manual copy is checked, the action will be matched from the default clipboard (e.g. with Ctrl+C).

Диалог Действия
Settings dialog showing the Action Dialog when creating or editing an action
Регулярные выражения

Basic special characters: ".?+*(|)[]\".

  • ".": represents a single character.

  • "?+*": respectively means zero or one character, one or more characters, and zero or more characters.

  • "(|)": used for grouping and substitution, the vertical bar is used as an OR operation.

  • "[^]": used to match a character from a set of characters and special characters, the circumflex is used at the start as a negation.

  • "\": escapes a special character.

Basic alphanumeric character class: "A-Za-z0-9". Character classes are used within square brackets to represent a set of characters.

Regular Expression Examples
  • "bug ?#?[0-9]+": text "bug", zero or one space, zero or one sharp character, and one or more numbers.

  • "(http|ftp).+\.(jpg|png|gif)": text "http" or "ftp", one or more character, a point, and the text "jpg", "png" or "gif".

  • "http://.{120}[^ ]+": text "http://", 120 characters, and one or more characters except a space.

Commands

A command can reuse one or more substitutions from the regular expression. The substitutions are represented by "\<number>" where <number> corresponds to the sub-pattern within parentheses or 0 for the complete text.

For example, from the simple pattern "bug #(123)" it is possible to use "\0" for the text "bug #123" and "\1" for the text "123". With the command "exo-open http://host/\1", the real executed command would be "exo-open http://host/123".

Xfconf

Clipman uses Xfconf to store its settings. That allows you to change the settings with the tool xfconf-query or xfce4-settings-editor. The channel where Clipman stores its settings is xfce4-panel and the base property is /plugins/clipman. The following table lists all the properties with their possible values.

Свойства Xfconf
Description of all Xfconf properties with their possible values, some of them are not available in the Settings Dialog

Свойство

Тип

По умолчанию

Значения

/settings/add-primary-clipboard

bool

false

true or false to sync the primary clipboard with the default clipboard

/settings/enable-actions

bool

false

true or false to enable actions

/settings/history-ignore-primary-clipboard

bool

false

true or false to exclude the primary clipboard from the history

/settings/max-images-in-history

uint

0

0-5, число изображений в журнале

/settings/max-texts-in-history

uint

10

5-100 number of texts in history

/settings/save-on-quit

bool

true

true or false to restore the history at every new session

/tweaks/inhibit

bool

false

true or false to disable the collector

/tweaks/paste-on-activate

uint

0

0 to disable, 1 to paste with Ctrl+V, or 2 to paste with Shift+Insert as soon as an item is selected from the history

/tweaks/popup-at-pointer

bool

false

true or false to popup the Clipman menu at the mouse pointer position, works only when called from the xfce4-popup-clipman command

/tweaks/reverse-menu-order

bool

false

true or false to display the history in the reverse order

To change a setting from a terminal type the following command-line:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /plugins/clipman/property -s value

Поддержка

To report a bug or a feature request use the bug tracking system at bugzilla.xfce.org. If you have questions about the use of this software, please ask on the Xfce mailing list, or point your IRC client to irc.freenode.net and join the channel #xfce and ask for help.

About Clipman

Clipman was written by Eduard Roccatello and then maintained by Nick Schermer, and nowadays it is written by Mike Massonnet. Visit the Clipman Website.

This documentation was written by Mike Massonnet (mmassonnet@xfce.com). Please send all your comments and suggestions regarding this manual.

This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA.