Clipboard

The clipboard history keeps copied text and images in memory, through wl-paste and wl-copy. Pins are the exception: they persist across restarts, as plaintext in $XDG_STATE_HOME/kanade/clipboard-pins.

Target	Enter
An entry	Puts it back on the clipboard
Its pin	Pins or unpins it; a pinned entry stays first
Its delete	Removes that entry
Clear all	Empties the history but the pins, held 0.7 s while it fills; an early release does nothing

The ring walks the entries, their pins and deletes, then Clear all. A picture shows as a thumbnail.

kanade clipboard clear   # keeps the pins, says how many: "kept 3 pinned"

The history’s bounds are 50 entries and 64 MiB, and a pinned entry is skipped when they drop the oldest — pins count in those bounds and are held to 20 and 16 MiB. A copy its app marks sensitive with x-kde-passwordManagerHint, as wl-copy --sensitive does, is never read.

Caution

Pins sit on disk unencrypted until you unpin or remove them, a password included; Kanade does not filter a pin. Everything else in the history lives only in memory, so restarting Kanade forgets it. There are no snippets, placeholders or sync.

See also

Clipboard and privacy gaps, Launcher (which searches it after >), and the CLI reference.