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Greenclip is a simple clipboard manager designed to be integrated with rofi and written in Haskell.

## Installation

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Install the rofi-greenclipAUR package.

## Usage

1. Spawn the daemon with `/usr/bin/greenclip daemon` or start/enable `greenclip.service`.
2. Show entries as a list within rofi using: `rofi -modi "clipboard:greenclip print" -show clipboard -run-command '{cmd}'`.
3. The entry that you have selected will be in your clipboard now.
4. Configuration file is placed in `~/.config/greenclip.toml`.
5. To clear all clipboard history, run `greenclip clear`.

## Troubleshooting

### Unable to record clipboard on i3wm

Put the following in the i3 configuration file. No need to start the service. greenclip issue #70

    ~/.config/i3/config

    # clipboard tool
    exec --no-startup-id greenclip daemon>/dev/null
    bindsym $mod+c exec --no-startup-id rofi -modi "clipboard:greenclip print" -show clipboard

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