I’m actually using xfce4-clipman myself tho (yeah I got that name wrong too, sorry bout that). You can find that from the XFCE project. You should be able to use it as a standalone, without needing to run the XFCE desktop environment, at least it’s packaged that way on Archlinux, which I use. Here’s a webpage for it: Https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/start. Source: over 2 years ago

Sure you didn't enable "Sync selections" in the clipman settings? Selecting text under x11 always copies it...you can't disable that. But by enabling "Sync selections" you say that the mouse selection buffer and the buffer are the same..thus overwriting every copy as soon as you select something. Source: over 2 years ago

Ditto is good but I am partial to the user interface of an AutoHotkey program called ClipJump[1]. The main functions are all accessible with the regular Ctrl and ZXC keys, in the normal flow. Pressing Ctrl+V while holding Ctrl down brings up a tooltip with the current item on the clipboard, and you can move backwards and forwards through the stack by tapping C and V (while still holding Ctrl). Tapping X switches... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago