Clipboard

The Wayland clipboard has two parts: the current copied item, provided by Wayland clipboard tools, and an optional history manager. Hornero’s session configuration records text and image clipboard selections with cliphist when the needed tools are installed.

Open clipboard history

Press Super + V or run:

horneroctl capture clipboard

The CLI chooses an available backend. On Wayland it prefers CopyQ, then cliphist, then a minimal current-clipboard read. CopyQ opens its GUI. The cliphist CLI path lists recent entries; it is not an interactive picker. The minimal fallback displays a short text preview and does not provide history.

What Hornero configures

CopyQ is an optional dependency of hornero-config, which provides its base configuration under ~/.config/copyq/. The appearance pipeline can generate a matching CopyQ palette. cliphist and wl-clipboard are separate host packages; the personal dotfiles session starts text and image history collection with wl-paste --watch.

Clipboard contents may include passwords, tokens, or private text. Treat history as sensitive data. Review CopyQ’s retention and privacy settings and clear items you do not want to keep. Hornero does not promise encrypted clipboard history or cross-device synchronization.

Troubleshooting:

• If history is empty, check whether a history backend is installed and whether the session collector is running.
• If CopyQ does not open, run horneroctl capture clipboard --backend copyq and verify that CopyQ starts independently.
• If CopyQ’s colors are stale, reapply the active theme from Appearance Settings.

Upstream: CopyQ manual, cliphist, wl-clipboard.