For many years I've been a registered user of the brilliant Windows program ClipMate, which was simply the single best and most useful program I used under that OS. It has so many wonderfully useful features, such as combining any number of clipped items, and cleaning junk formatting out of such items.

To save boring everyone by raving about the program, just have a look at http://www.thornsoft.com/ to get an idea of its superb functionality.

I feel somewhat bereft as I enter the Linux world, as all I've been able to find so far are the very inadequate and unsatisfactory Xclipboard, Klipper, and Basket programs.

I've recently had a most unsatisfactory correspondence with the President of Thornsoft Development, Inc., which produces ClipMate. Unfortunately he's very dismissive of Linux.

It surprises me that the Linux world doesn't seem to have anything remotely like ClipMate. Or is it lurking out there unseen and unknown??

I know exactly what you mean. It's one those marginal areas where things are lacking here. On Windows I used the even better CLCL clipboard extender (an absolutely amazing program, IMO), but there's nothing that comes close to it in the Linux world, and that seems very strange to me. I periodically run searches to see if anything new has come up, but so far I've seen nothing that seems suitable to me. I wish I knew how to program so I could make a CLCL-style one of my own.

I recently found DDM, but I haven't tried it yet. It doesn't seem to do everything I want right now (I particularly want the ability to keep a list of "permanent" items for pasting), and it's designed for gnome when I use kde, but it has a plugin interface, so I'm keeping my eye on it.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering, I've also tried running several windows programs under wine and none of them work properly. They all fail to read and write to the X clipboard properly. I don't think wine has the interface worked out well enough yet to support them.

I'm not sure that you will get many useful answers to the question in its present form; this may not be a problem to you if all you want to do is get a complaint off your chest and move on.

I would think most full-time linux users will have no idea of what ClipMate does and therefore will be unable to recommend a program to (partly) replace its functionality.

My only suggestion for you to try would be TomBoy notes; even though it doesn't sound as if it has all the functions of ClipMate, you might still like it.

>> Thanks very much, I'll give it a Google.

http://glipper.sourceforge.net/

glipper is for gnome... There is something called klipper for kde distros..


Try this app..............

Anyone who's used a lot of freeware on Windows should know what a clipboard extender is. Programs like klipper provide basic clipboard extension, but ones like ClipMate and CLCL add even more options to them (saving clips, editing clips before pasting, filters for the kinds of data saved and not saved, popup windows and hotkeys for re-pasting the last few saved clips, etc).

Now that I'm on kde I mostly use klipper, but it lacks several features that I had enjoyed before, particularly the ability to have permanent clips and to paste directly from a pop-up list of past clips at the cursor. I miss having more control over my clipboard contents...although the ever-convenient x-windows copy buffer kind of makes up for some of it. You'd think that a really powerful clipboard extender is something that *nix users and programmers would naturally love having, but oddly enough there just doesn't seem to be much interest in having more than the basics.

I may have to take a closer look at glipper next, since it says it has "snippets", which sounds like permanent clips. But I don't know how well it will integrate with kde. (I'm traveling now so I can't test anything at the moment, but I'm going to do it as soon as I get back.) I also finally tried installing DDM after my last post, but it turns out that it requires mono, so forget that.