clipmenu is a simple clipboard manager using [dmenu][] (or [rofi][] with
CM_LAUNCHER=rofi) and [xsel][].
Usage
Start clipmenud, then run clipmenu to select something to put on the
clipboard.
clipmenu-url Will work the same way expect it has a addition it will open the
selected line with default browser.
- If chosen line is not a link, search it with a search engine (default is duckduckgo).
- If chosen line is a link open it with browser
You can run the scripts standalone or you can just get the clipmenu-url.
Example default setup
export BROWSER="firefox" export SEARCHENGINE="google"
Example dwm config
static const char *clipcmd[] = { "clipmenu", "-fn", dmenufont, NULL }; static const char *urlcmd[] = { "clipmenu-url", "-fn", dmenufont, NULL };
MODKEY is alt by default in dwm. Alt+Insert is the clipboard history menu. Alt+o opens clipmenu-url.
{ MODKEY, XK_Insert, spawn, {.v = clipcmd } }, { MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, {.v = urlcmd } },