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I have deleted something but I had copied before. Ctrl+v shows only the last copied text. I tried to install diodon and cliplt. As I understand they start to archive some history of the clipboard. But how can I go to some history of the clipboard within Ubuntu 14.04? Leaving my PC turned on while waiting for answers.

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What type of content is it? text, image, file, other. – richard Jul 30 '14 at 11:53
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actually X has two clipboards, on is filled with ctrl+c (or x) and pasted with ctrl+v. the "secondary" clipboard is filled by selecting text and pasted with the middle mouse button. so sometimes you are lucky and can retrieve text with the middle mouse button. – weberik Jul 30 '14 at 12:23
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If you don't have a clipboard manager then it's gone forever.

If you are using KDE then you are in luck because it has all the clipboard history under the scissors icon in the tray

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To install one:

sudo apt-get install parcellite

Parcellite Install Parcellite

It runs in the Notification Area and offers many options for managing both Primary Selection and standard freedesktop.org Clipboard.

Tray Icon

Preferences

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If you don't have a clipboard manager then it's gone forever. – Martin Jul 30 '14 at 12:41
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For ubuntu 14 parcellite was forked to clipit (sudo apt-get install clipit). – maklemenz Sep 9 '15 at 9:39
    
@maklemenz sure it was "forked to clipit"? clipit is already present in 12.04, and parcellite is still there in 16.04. Any reference? – Izzy Nov 19 '16 at 18:57
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PS: According to parcellite homepage, it's still a project on its own with releases after 14.10 came out ;) // According to the changelog, the fork to Clipit must have happened in 2010 or earlier. Last Cliptit release was 2013, their website is no longer available even. Just sayin ;) Decent alternative: sudo apt-get install qlipper (cross platform, light-weight). – Izzy Nov 19 '16 at 19:12
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@Izzy parcellite wasn't available on my system. I used google to find an alternative and read a comment or article or something about the fork. Should have added the reference back then. Thanks for clearing that up. – maklemenz Nov 20 '16 at 11:09

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