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Advanced Clipboard Manager ‘CopyQ’ 2.4.3 Released

Last updated: July 28, 2015

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager available for both Windows and Linux. It allows you to browse, search, and edit clipboard history in text, HTML, images and any other custom format.

The software provides a customizable system tray menu, supports a variety of system-wide shortcuts (e.g. show main window or tray, edit clipboard, copy next/previous, paste as plain text), sorts items in tabs or tree, and provides advanced command-line interface and scripting.

The latest 2.4.3 release brings new plugins and a few fixes:

Plugin for tagging items
Plugins can provide script functions and commands
Improved automatic commands execution
Fixed gradients, transparency and other style improvements
Fixed decryption with newer version of GnuPG
Fixes for Qt 5 version

How to Install CopyQ:

Source tarball and installers for Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and Fedora are available for download at the github release page:

For Ubuntu user, select download the i386.deb for 32-bit system or amd64.deb for 64-bit system. Finally click to open the package with Ubuntu Software Center and install the software:

That’s it. For documentation, see the CopyQ wiki page.

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Install CopyQ Clipboard Manager 2.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

Last updated: May 26, 2014

CopyQ, an advanced clipboard manager with searchable and editable history, has reached release 2.2.0 which brings some new features, GUI improvements and bug fixes.

As you may know, CopyQ is a cross-platform clipboard manager with support for HTML, images, command line control and more. It runs on Linux, Windows and features:

Store text, HTML, images and any other custom format.
Customize tray menu.
Save items in new tabs.
Quickly browse through items (fast navigation, filtering with matched text highlighting).
Sort items, create new, remove, copy/paste to different tab.
Variety of system-wide shortcuts (e.g. show main window or tray, edit clipboard, copy next/previous item, paste as plain text).
Immediately paste to focused window from tray or main window.
Fully customizable appearance (colors, fonts, transparency).
Advanced command-line interface and scripting.
Ignore clipboard copied from some windows or containing some text.
Apply custom commands on selected items or automatically when new matching clipboard content is available.

The latest release CopyQ 2.2.0 brings below new features, improvements and bug fixes:

Custom system shortcuts for any user command
Drag’n’drop items to tabs
Options to set position and maximum size for notifications
Option to open windows on same desktop
Weblate service for translations (https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/copyq/master/)
Commands input and output is UTF-8 only (this fixes encoding issues on Windows)
Scripting engine improvements
Various GUI improvements and fixes
Fix main window position in various X11 window managers
Fix crashing with Oxygen GUI style
Fix storing images from clipboard on Windows
Various GUI improvements and fixes

How to install:

Check out your system type 32 bit (i386) or 64 bit (amd64) by going to System Settings -> Details. Then download and install the package from:

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Clipboard Manager CopyQ 2.0.0 released, Install in Ubuntu Linux

Last updated: December 10, 2013

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager with searchable and editable history, and with support for text, HTML, images and any other custom format.

CopyQ 2.0.0 was release recently, it features local synchronization, faster tab loading and saving, and more. See the changelog:

Synchronize items with files on disk
Faster tab loading and saving (data format was changed; only backward compatible)
User can limit size of text items
Opening external image editor fixed on Windows
New logo and website
Lot of other fixes