## Clipboard Manager Tip
<!-- published:  2017/7/24 -->

![Clipboard Manager QR](//developer.run/pic/qr.png)

Don't underestimate how useful [Clipboard Managers](http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72853.html), and especially Clipboard Manager Actions could be. It allow you to link applications not connectible by other ways. For example by hotkey:

* Url copied from Vivaldi (Chrome) → Script that [queues download to Synology NAS](https://github.com/mb243/SynoDL/blob/master/synodl.sh)
* Url copied from Chrome → Play video stream in Vlc (without [complicated hacks](https://add0n.com/open-in.html))
* [Add bookmark](https://github.com/dmi3/bin/blob/master/bookmarks)
* [Save to Instapaper](https://gist.github.com/maddox/166902)
* Show QR code to quckly transfer copied text to your mobile phone
    - `qrencode %s -s 15 -o /tmp/qr.png && xdg-open /tmp/qr.png` - open in image viewer
    - `qrencode "%s" -o /tmp/qr.png && notify-send -i /tmp/qr.png " "` - open in [Dunst](https://developer.run/23) notification
* ...

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