Clipboard – How to Increase Clipboard Size

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If I try to copy-paste a large amount of text (from Firefox to LibreOffice), the amount of text thus copied is truncated.
What setting / application imposes this limit (I assume it is the DE)? And is there anyway to increase the size of the clipboard?

Best Answer

You can use GLIPPER which is Klipper's Gnome Cousin. Click here Glipper

Some of the features are:

Will not truncate your data. At least I tested by copying from my Blog a whole post that was 3387 words total.
You can have a maximum of 1024 entries (Klipper can have 4096). But I think that having 100 is enough.
Very easy to use, just highlight some text and done. You do not need to copy it. Just highlighted it.

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After installing it you need to logout/login to make it show on the panel.

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Remove Line Breaks when copying text from PDF (Linux)

This bash script removes line breaks when copying text from PDF. It works for both Primary Selection and Clipboard of Linux.

#!/bin/bash

# title: copy_without_linebreaks
# author: Glutanimate (github.com/glutanimate)
# modifier: Siddharth (github.com/SidMan2001)
# license: MIT license

# Parses currently selected text and removes 
# newlines

while ./clipnotify;
do
  SelectedText="$(xsel)"
  CopiedText="$(xsel -b)"
  if [[ $SelectedText != *"file:///"* ]]; then
    ModifiedTextPrimary="$(echo "$SelectedText" | tr -s '\n' ' ')"
    echo -n "$ModifiedTextPrimary" | xsel -i
  fi
  if [[ $CopiedText != *"file:///"* ]]; then
    ModifiedTextClipboard="$(echo "$CopiedText" | tr -s '\n' ' '  )"
    echo -n "$ModifiedTextClipboard" | xsel -bi
  fi
done

Dependencies

xsel: sudo apt install xsel

clipnotify. You can use the pre-compiled clipnotify provided in the repository or compile yourself.
To compile clipnotify yourself

sudo apt install git build-essential libx11-dev libxtst-dev
git clone https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify.git
cd clipnotify
sudo make

To USE

Download this repository as zip or copy and paste the script in a text editor and save it as copy_without_linebreaks.sh.
Make sure that script and clipnotify (downloaded or precompiled) are in the same folder.
Open terminal in script's folder and set permission
chmod +x "copy_without_linebreaks.sh"
Double-click the script or run by entering in terminal :
.\copy_without_linebreaks.sh
Copy text in pdf and paste it anywhere. Lines breaks will be removed.