GPaste

What it does

Clipboard history

It keeps persistent history across sessions and supports multiple named histories that users can switch between, back up and delete independently.checked 9 Oct 2026

Compatibility limits

The current GTK advertises the password marker on X11 but cannot serve its value, so other clipboard managers may not recognize GPaste passwords there.checked 9 Oct 2026

Distribution

Installation instructions cover Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian and Ubuntu, openSUSE, other distributions and building from source.checked 9 Oct 2026

Encryption

Optional libsodium-backed encryption protects history at rest, and the passphrase can optionally be kept in the keyring.checked 9 Oct 2026

GNOME integration

The GNOME Shell extension can switch, create, empty, back up and delete histories from its menu.checked 9 Oct 2026

Keyboard shortcuts

Global shortcuts use the XDG portal to work on Wayland and X11, and a preference can disable them all.checked 9 Oct 2026

Password handling

Users can mark clipboard items as passwords so their contents are hidden from the history and clipboard access can expire after a timeout.checked 9 Oct 2026

Purpose

GPaste is a clipboard management system for GNOME with a daemon, a GTK 4 interface, a GNOME Shell extension and a command-line client.checked 9 Oct 2026

Release target

GPaste 51.0 is the first stable GPaste 51 release and targets GNOME 51.checked 9 Oct 2026

Search and editing

Users can search, merge and edit clipboard items from the graphical interface, GNOME Shell extension or CLI.checked 9 Oct 2026

Storage

Storage options are an XML file, per-history SQLite databases, or no storage, and users can migrate between backends.checked 9 Oct 2026

Support and contributions

The maintainer welcomes bug reports and patches, accepts translations through Weblate, and offers GitHub Sponsors and PayPal as ways to support development.checked 9 Oct 2026

Supported content

It stores plain text, rich text, HTML, images, URIs and colours; images are deduplicated by checksum.checked 9 Oct 2026