Diodon
Aiming to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Unity desktop.
⚠️ Low Maintenance Mode: This project is in low maintenance mode and only following issues will be addressed:
- packaging issues, so Diodon will remain in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories
- Updating of translations
- Addressing of security issues
For more details read this blog post.
Installing
For Ubuntu based distributes there is an official stable PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y diodon
To install Diodon on other systems download a release tarball from launchpad.
Building
Diodon uses the Meson build system.
git clone https://github.com/diodon-dev/diodon.git && cd diodon
meson setup builddir && cd builddir
ninja
ninja test
sudo ninja install
# only needed after the first ninja install
sudo ldconfig
The unity scope needs to be explicitly enabled if you want to build it
meson configure -Denable-unity-scope=true
On distributions which do not provide packages for application-indicator building of the indicator can be disabled by adjusting builddir creation command:
meson builddir -Ddisable-indicator-plugin=true && cd builddir
For uninstalling type this:
sudo ninja uninstall
Plugins
If you would like to write your own Diodon plugin please refer to the original blog post. Feel free to add your own plugins to the list below.
| Plugin | Description |
|---|---|
| Features | Additional features for the diodon menu. |
| Numbers | Number clipboard menu items. |
| Pop Item | Pastes and then removes the active clipboard item. |
| Paste All | Paste all recent items at once |
| Edit | Prompts to edit the active item. |
Store clipoard items in memory
Diodon uses Zeitgeist to store clipboard items. Per default Zeitgeist persists all events in a database on the hard disc so it is available after a reboot. If you want to store it to memory you need to set environment variable ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH to :memory: with a command like the following (might differ depending on your setup):
echo "ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH=:memory:" >> ~/.pam_environment
Support
Take part in the discussion or report a bug on the launchpad page.
