For Linux, there’s now new “Clipboard Pinner” app called Serigy for GNOME desktop.

It’s NOT a clipboard manager that can save and manage clipboard history. It works by selectively pinning (copy) clipboard content (text, image, URL, etc) into app window, then easily copy back to clipboard when needed with one click.

pinned items in Serigy

As the app does NOT require any permission to access or monitor clipboard, so it’s more secure than the traditional clipboard manager application.

How Serigy Works

At the first launch of Serigy, the app will guide user to firstly create custom keyboard shortcuts for the pin and launch app window action.

When user copied something into clipboard and want for later or repeat use, just press the pre-defined keyboard shortcut to pin to app window.

Then, at any time, user may press another keyboard shortcut to launch app window, and single click on a pinned item to copy back to clipboard.

As you can see in the screenshots, it can pin up to 6 items, and supports arranging, deleting items, and empty all slots.

Install & Set up Serigy

Serigy is available to install in most Linux on amd64 and arm64 platforms through Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox environment.

Linux Mint 21/22 (it works in Cinnamon desktop) and Fedora workstation (with 3rd party repository enabled) can search & install the package from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.

Serigy in Linux Mint Software Manager

• While Debian/Ubuntu and their based systems may run the commands below one by one to install the package:First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open up terminal. When it opens, run command to enable Flatpak support:

  sudo apt install flatpak

  

• After that, run the single command below to install the clipboard pinner:

  flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.cleomenezesjr.Serigy.flatpakref

  If this is the first time installing Flatpak package, then there’ll be lots of download for the run-time libraries.

  

After installed the package, search for and launch it from GNOME Overview and follow the welcome wizard for the first time.

If the app icon is not visible, either log out and back in or run the command instead to start from terminal.

flatpak run io.github.cleomenezesjr.Serigy

When it opens, follow the wizard to setup custom keyboard shortcuts for pin (copy) and app launch actions.

When done, copy anything into clipboard, then press the shortcuts you set to pin and launch Serigy and enjoy!

Uninstall Serigy

To uninstall the app package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.cleomenezesjr.Serigy

Optionally run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run time libraries.