If your daily work revolves around copying and pasting snippets of text from one place to another, then there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want a decent clipboard manager by your side.
Clipboard Indicator is a GNOME Shell extension that provides you with a dedicated clipboard manager for Ubuntu.
Feature rundown
So, here’s what you can expect from Clipboard Indicator. Once installed, the applet adds a tiny clipboard icon in Ubuntu’s status bar. The extension keeps a history of clipboard entries/contents and you can quickly and effortlessly re-copy them at a later date of your choosing.
Despite its ultra-minimalistic look, Clipboard Indicator offers a surprising degree of customization. For example, you can specify the memory cache size (for example, last 5 items, or the last 150 items), tweak the refresh interval, enable or disable the notifications when new clipboard entries are added, and so forth.
There’s also a private move, a nifty search bar, as well as an option that allows you to instantly wipe all the clipboard history until the present point.
Does it have everything you need from a clipboard manager?
It really depends on your needs. As Ubuntu/Linux users, we don’t actually have all the luxuries and possibilities (in terms of variety) as macOS or Windows users, so beggars can’t be choosers, right?
If you mostly use text, links, or emojis, then Clipboard Indicator is perfect. It’s lightweight, it’s unobtrusive, has keyboard support, and it integrates nicely in your Linux system’s status bar.
Verdict
Even though it comes in the form of a GNOME Shell extension (which some users might consider very awkward to install), Clipboard Indicator is without a doubt a very useful little tool. It does have its limitations as it only caches text, links, and emojis, but other than that, it’s a nice little tool that’s definitely worth having around.
