Copyq Advance Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint

CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with searchable and editable history with support for image formats, command line control and more. Command interface and graphical interface accessible from tray. By default the application stores any new clipboard content in list in the first tab. Main window can be opened by either left clicking on tray icon, running command copyq show or using system-wide shortcut (configurable from Preferences).

Advance Features:

• open video player if text copied in clipboard is URL with multimedia,
• store text copied from a code editor in "code" tab,
• store URLs in different tab,
• save screenshots (print-screen),
• load all files from directory to items (create image gallery),
• replace a text in all matching items,
• run item as a Python script.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Item list navigation >> PgDown/PgUp, Home/End, Up/Down
• Tab navigation >> Left, Right, Tab, Shift+Tab
• Move selected items >> Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down
• Cycle through item formats >> Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right
• Hide window >> Escape
• Exit >> Ctrl+Q
• Edit selected items (in place) >> F2
• Edit items in external editor >> Ctrl+E
• Open action dialog for selected items >> F5
• Delete selected items >> Delete
• Put current item into clipboard >> Enter
• Show help >> F1

To install copyq in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press CTRL+ALT+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install copyq

That's it


Source: noobslab