Using a clipboard manager with Regolith 3

[fred-apex-ai]

Hey

I have been a happy user of Regolith 1.6 and used greenclip with rofi very productively. I just switched to regolith on a new laptop and it seems rofi is not used anymore. What clipboard manager can I use? Can I still use greenclip? What is the application that shows the application menu with Super+Space, can I interact with it in a custom way, like I could with rofi?

Or is there another clipboard manager that is recommended for regolith 3?

[fred-apex-ai]

I figured out the answer myself. ilia is used for showing the menu etc. It can be used to select from the clipboard as well. I can still use greenclip with this snippet that I have stored in $HOME/.config/regolith3/i3/config.d/30_greenclip

set $greenclip /path/to/greenclip
exec --no-startup-id $greenclip daemon
## Launch // clipboard selection // <><Enter>
# copy to primary selection and clipboard. Install moreutils for `ifne` that prevents emptying the selection when nothing comes out of ilia
bindsym $mod+Return exec $greenclip print | ilia -p textlist -n | ifne xclip -i -sel clipboard -f | ifne xclip -i -sel primary

I like to have the selected item in both primary selection and the clipboard, but that's easy to change according to preference. So now I can check the clipboard, and optionally change the selection using ilia. Very handy!