Glipper is a clipboard

Clipboard (software)

The clipboard is a software facility that can be used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations...

 utility for the GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 panel. It allows users of Unix-like

Unix-like

A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....

 operating systems to access a history of X Selections, any item of which can be reselected for pasting. Glipper is often described as the GNOME counterpart to KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

's Klipper

Klipper

Klipper is a clipboard manager for the KDE interface. It allows users of Unix-like operating systems running the KDE desktop environment to access a history of X Selections, any item of which can be reselected for pasting. It can also be used to react automatically if a certain text is selected...

. Older versions of Glipper could also be run outside of GNOME, but the newest version 1.0 is GNOME only because of its heavy integration into different GNOME techniques. However, it can be run inside XFCE4's panel using the XfApplet wrapper - and through it, into any custom session that uses xfce4-panel, such as Openbox

Openbox

Openbox is a free window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0 , Openbox has now been totally rewritten in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is not based upon any code from Blackbox.Openbox is designed...

 sessions.

Plugin support

Since version 1.0, Glipper also supports plugins, which can be written in Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

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Some plugin are also included in the 1.0 release:

• A network plugin, to synchronize the histories of multiple Glipper processes via the network
• An action plugin, similar to Klipper's action function
• A snippet plugin, which lets the user access text snippets they want to use very frequently
• A nopaste plugin, which lets you paste your clipboard content to a Nopaste service

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