Clipman
This manual describes Clipman version 1.2.0.
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Table of Contents
Introducció
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.
Anatomia del porta-retalls
En X11 (totes les plataformes Unix) hi ha per defecte dos porta-retalls que permeten intercanviar qualsevol dada entre finestres. Un porta-retalls per defecte que es modifica amb les còpies manuals (per exemple, quan seleccioneu un fitxer i pitgeu en el botó de copiar), i un porta-retalls primari que es modifica al fer seleccions (per exemple, quan seleccioneu un camp).
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.
Començant
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.
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....
Clipman provides the command-line tool xfce4-popup-clipman. When called it popups the main menu. The command is practical for the Application Shortcuts available at Xfce Menu ▸ Settings ▸ Keyboard.
Preferències
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.
Option |
Descripció |
Sincronització de seleccions |
sincronitza el porta-retalls principal amb el porta-retalls per defecte de forma que és possible enganxar el que s'ha seleccionat |
Desar al sortir |
Manté l'historial en les noves sessions |
Store last copied image |
Permet emmagatzemar una imatge a l'historial |
Ignore selections |
Evita que el porta-retalls principal s'insereixi en l'historial |
Reverse order |
Reverse order of the history shown in the menu |
Tamany de l'historial |
Estableix el nombre d'ítems que es mantenen a l'historial |
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 .
Diàleg d'accions
Una acció té un nom llegible per una persona que descriu el patró amb el que ha de coincidir. Una acció ha de tenir almenys una ordre amb un nom llegible per una persona. El text de coincidència es pot reutilitzar en l'ordre.
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).
Expressió regular
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.
"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.
Propietat |
Tipus |
Defecte |
Valors |
/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 nombre d'imatges a l'historial |
/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
Suport
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.