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CristianHenzel / ClipIt

ClipIt clipboard manager for GTK+
https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt
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Prevent clipit from storing clipboard history #60

Closed Phyks closed 7 years ago

Phyks commented 7 years ago

Hi,

I am mainly using clipit to sync my primary and graphical clipboards, and I very rarely use the history feature. But there does not seem to be any way to prevent it from storing history, either temporarily or permanently.

Moreover, when using tools such as pwgen for generating passwords, the copied password is stored in clipit history, which can be a real security issue.

What about adding such a feature?

Thanks!

CristianHenzel commented 7 years ago

Hello,

did you try to set the history length to 1? That would make ClipIt only store a single item in the history, basically the item that you have in your system clipboard too. If you don't regularly clear our your system clipboard, I don't really see this as a security issue, since the currently copied clipboard item can be seen by basically any application running on your system anyway.

Phyks commented 7 years ago

Indeed, but it seems that the minimum history length is 5. At least, it always goes back to 5 when I set 1. I am using clipit 1.4.3-1 from AUR.