Advanced Clipboard Manager ‘CopyQ’ 3.0.3 Adds New Documentation

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CopyQ, an open-source, cross-platform, advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features, has reached the 3.0.3 release days ago with new documentation, improvements and some bug-fixes.

CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application.

CopyQ features:

Support for Linux, Windows and OS X 10.9+
Store text, HTML, images or any other custom formats
Quickly browse and filter items in clipboard history
Sort, create, edit, remove, copy/paste, drag’n’drop items in tabs
Add notes or tags to items
System-wide shortcuts with customizable commands
Paste items with shortcut or from tray or main window
Fully customizable appearance
Advanced command-line interface and scripting
Ignore clipboard copied from some windows or containing some text
Support for simple Vim-like editor and shortcuts
Many more features

Changes in the latest CopyQ 3.0.3:

Added new documentation
Added option to disable auto-completion for commands
Improved image thumbnail rendering
Fixed opening window on current screen
Fixed item rendering when searching
Fixed tab reloading and closing external editor
Fixed image sizes
Fixed loading plugins on OS X
Fixed selecting area in screenshot
Fixed rendering and showing tooltip for notes
Fixed hang on exit when using QtCurve theme

How to Install CopyQ 3.0.3 in Ubuntu:

For all current Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives,

either download the .deb packages from:

CopyQ release page

or install CopyQ and receive future updates via its official PPA:

Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run command to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hluk/copyq

Then update and install CopyQ via commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install copyq

When a new release is out and made into PPA, use Software Updater (update manager) to upgrade it along with other system updates.

Uninstall CopyQ:

To uninstall the clipboard manager, simply run command in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove copyq

And remove the PPA via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.