Pastie – handy clipboard manager indicator applet

By , Published October 24, 2010

Pastie is a small clipboard manager that uses an indicator-applet to display and give access to your clipboard history.

It boasts a modest set of configurable preferences including history size, options to set keyboard shortcuts and minor interface tweaks to the applet itself.

Download

It has its own PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hel-sheep/pastie

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pastie

Mono-Icon

By default Pastie uses a stock GNOME icon for its indicator. FOr users of Ambiance or Radiance this looks less than ideal but is easily remedied by replacing the stock icon with mono-style equivalents created by DeviantArt user ~Ramzea.

Download, extract and pop your required icon in

  • /usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/22

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  • http://forteller.net/ Børge A. Roum

    Quite a few of these now.. Parcellite, Glippy, this one, and some more. They all do almost exactly the same. Which one should one choose?

    • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

      Glippy was abandoned in a very buggy state. Parcellite was also abandoned: while I use without it noticing any bugs, that means it won’t receive any improvements either. Pastie seems like the best bet if you want something still maintained.

      • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/souobadaro Red_Acid

        I have to disagree about the Glippy stuff you said. A new version just came out 6 days ago, so I wouldn’t say that it was abandoned.

        I use Glippy (as a indicator applet – just execute it as “glippy –appindicator”) and I don’t have any issues.

        • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

          Sorry, I confused it with Glipper, which is indeed abandoned as its last version is from 2007.

      • Anonymous

        Glippy is not abandoned. Anyway, if you think it’s buggy, why won’t you fill the bug report, huh? :O

        • http://twitter.com/zc456 Zenon Tigerpaw

          Always irritated me how people bitch about open source software being buggy, yet do nothing about it.

        • http://twitter.com/zc456 Zenon Tigerpaw

          Always irritated me how people bitch about open source software being buggy, yet do nothing about it.

          • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

            Luckily, I’m not one of those people. I’m just a person who confuses app names. :)

          • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

            Luckily, I’m not one of those people. I’m just a person who confuses app names. :)

          • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

            Luckily, I’m not one of those people. I’m just a person who confuses app names. :)

        • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

          Because I confused with it Glipper, which is indeed abandoned and therefore does not receive bug reports anymore. :)

      • Anonymous

        Glippy is not abandoned. Anyway, if you think it’s buggy, why won’t you fill the bug report, huh? :O

      • Seventh Reign

        Glippy is by far the most stable of the 3. Parcellite screws up your copy and paste by automatically copying anything highlighted. Which makes pasting urls into the browser next to impossible (it automatically highlights the existing url, which overwrites the one you wanted to paste. Pastie, while it has some nice features, will crash or fail to load about 75% of the time.

        • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

          Parcellite has an option to separate selection copying from explicit copying. It works for me, I can paste URLs into the browser normally.

        • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

          Parcellite has an option to separate selection copying from explicit copying. It works for me, I can paste URLs into the browser normally.

        • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

          Parcellite has an option to separate selection copying from explicit copying. It works for me, I can paste URLs into the browser normally.

        • Anonymous

          Been using Pastie for a few months and haven’t had it crash at all (yet). Perhaps I’m lucky? :)

          I think why some people prefer Pastie is it’s the only one with an indicator applet that’s actively maintained and not doesn’t use Mono. Does anyone know this for sure?

        • Anonymous

          Been using Pastie for a few months and haven’t had it crash at all (yet). Perhaps I’m lucky? :)

          I think why some people prefer Pastie is it’s the only one with an indicator applet that’s actively maintained and not doesn’t use Mono. Does anyone know this for sure?

        • Anonymous

          Been using Pastie for a few months and haven’t had it crash at all (yet). Perhaps I’m lucky? :)

          I think why some people prefer Pastie is it’s the only one with an indicator applet that’s actively maintained and not doesn’t use Mono. Does anyone know this for sure?

    • Anonymous

      Pastie of course. Unlike parcelite it also remembers the file-copying.

  • http://forteller.net/ Børge A. Roum

    Quite a few of these now.. Parcellite, Glippy, this one, and some more. They all do almost exactly the same. Which one should one choose?

  • http://twitter.com/snwh Sam Hewitt

    One can also change the icon by creating a ~/.pastie directory and putting a “pastie.svg” in there. (I renamed a .png to a .svg and that worked also.)

    • daas88

      Thanks! Putting the icon on humanity folder didn’t work

      • Anonymous

        Create a folder in your home folder named .pastie , place the image you want to use and rename the image pastie. and restart the program it should work.

        • Anonymous

          Check the comment right above the one you just replied to. :)

  • Anonymous

    Does this still allow me to use the highlight then paste by middle clicking thing? I don’t want to lose that functionality, also the facebook widget thing seems to be dead or not working.

    • Anonymous

      I supports it, but it’s buggy, e.g. after selection in gEdit all history is replaced by parts of text.

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    My panel is being over-run with applets….

    • Anonymous

      Can’t tell if this is you saying you’re adding to many or a hit at the authors for reviewing so many indicators.

      Either way, they review them in case anyone finds them useful. You don’t *have* to add any of them. In fact, many seem redundant or to be missing the original intent of indicators, but it’s your choice nonetheless.

      And technically it’s being over-run by indicators, not applets (all the indicators sit in one applet). Common mistake. :)

    • Anonymous

      Can’t tell if this is you saying you’re adding to many or a hit at the authors for reviewing so many indicators.

      Either way, they review them in case anyone finds them useful. You don’t *have* to add any of them. In fact, many seem redundant or to be missing the original intent of indicators, but it’s your choice nonetheless.

      And technically it’s being over-run by indicators, not applets (all the indicators sit in one applet). Common mistake. :)

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    My panel is being over-run with applets….

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    My panel is being over-run with applets….

  • Dark X Dragon

    This is actually somehting I really like the idea to have as an indicator applet.
    I had to stop using Glipper because it had problems with Eclipse (Albeit, it is all Eclipse’s fault). I’m now using Parcellite but I think it would feel a lot better as an applet.

  • Dark X Dragon

    This is actually somehting I really like the idea to have as an indicator applet.
    I had to stop using Glipper because it had problems with Eclipse (Albeit, it is all Eclipse’s fault). I’m now using Parcellite but I think it would feel a lot better as an applet.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, sometimes I roll my eyes at the different types of indicators they cover here, but this one I’ve been using for a while and it just makes sense. Can’t live without it now. :P

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, sometimes I roll my eyes at the different types of indicators they cover here, but this one I’ve been using for a while and it just makes sense. Can’t live without it now. :P

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHS3YNBYUFBBEPUESRLV747QOM Dylan

    I did try Parcellite before for a while, however I found it too buggy so I had to remove it.

    One thing I found with it is I had to keep on clicking on the words/data in the tray which was annoying. I want one of these to remember the proper info without needing to click on anything!!

  • http://twitter.com/stee1rat SteelRat

    That’s funny, just yesterday i was trying to find a clipboard manager and chose Glippy, thanks for this one :)

  • https://launchpad.net/~toru-tkhr taka

    I use it with Faenza-Dark icon,and it looks nice!

  • https://launchpad.net/~toru-tkhr taka

    I use it with Faenza-Dark icon,and it looks nice!

  • https://launchpad.net/~toru-tkhr taka

    I use it with Faenza-Dark icon,and it looks nice!

  • https://launchpad.net/~toru-tkhr taka

    I use it with Faenza-Dark icon,and it looks nice!

  • Anonymous

    Parcellite here. It just works great for what it needs to do.

  • http://twitter.com/KenWalkerQB Ken Walker

    Two problems with Glippy. First it doesn’t start up right when rebooting. Actually thought this was my fault and reinstalled from scratch once. Didn’t hlep. Applies to last 4 or 5 versions of Ubunutu. The other is that it uses up all of its capacity to store previous snippets by keeping many multiple versions of each without apparent purpose. An alternative to Glippy is most welcome.

    • Anonymous

      Please report bugs if you have problems with Glippy. I don’t have such problems so I can’t help you without proper report…

  • http://twitter.com/KenWalkerQB Ken Walker

    Hmm. . . . . after running the first command line, I now find a lot of repositories no longer update.

  • http://twitter.com/KenWalkerQB Ken Walker

    Hmm. . . . . after running the first command line, I now find a lot of repositories no longer update.

  • http://www.flickr.com/stuffbox DuduMaroja

    I still think something like this should be included as default and withou any tray or indicator icon, just working!

  • Anonymous

    If anybody in 10.04 have problems with banshee appindicator after adding this PPA this is due to the fact that the PPA updates the package libappindicator0.0-cil , to version 0.021 which has problems with banshee’s appindicator. To be able to use banshee’s appindicator just force version 0.019 of libappindicator0.0-cil and lock the version using synaptic. It should work fine.

  • Anonymous

    This is one of the few indicators I use and I love it. So simple I forget it’s there until I use a computer where it’s not.

    Oh, and can you please, please refer to these types of things properly? Pastie is an app that displays an indicator, or for simplicity sake, it’s an indicator. It is not an applet or an indicator applet. It displays its indicator in the indicator applet which also holds the other indicators.

  • http://twitter.com/milescroxford miles croxford

    whats the cloud icon?

 
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