ClipChat

ClipChat

A clipboard manager that lives inside the Minecraft chat screen. Open chat, click an entry, and it is inserted at your cursor : no alt-tabbing to find that message, coordinate or command again.

ClipChat is client-side only. It does nothing on a server and does not need to be installed on one.

Features

• In-chat clipboard panel. Everything you copy inside Minecraft is listed in the chat screen, newest first, and one click inserts it at your text cursor.
• Pinning. Pinned entries sort to the top and are never dropped to make room for new ones.
• Full keyboard control. Move, insert, pin and delete without leaving the keyboard.
• A movable, resizable, collapsible panel. Position, size and collapsed state are remembered between sessions.
• Themes and per-colour overrides. Four built-in themes, and every individual colour can be overridden by hand.
• Optional Windows clipboard history tab. Off by default. When enabled, browse the system clipboard history that Windows itself keeps, and insert from it directly.
• Optional persistence. Off by default. Your Minecraft clipboard history can survive a restart, or empty itself every time you quit.

Supported platforms

Windows	Fully supported, including the Windows clipboard history tab
macOS	Fully supported, except the Windows history tab
Linux	Fully supported, except the Windows history tab

The Windows clipboard history tab additionally requires Windows 10 version 1809 or newer, with clipboard history switched on in Settings → System → Clipboard.

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer for Minecraft 26.2.
2. Download Fabric API 0.155.2+26.2 or newer and drop the jar into .minecraft/mods/.
3. Download the ClipChat jar and drop it into .minecraft/mods/ as well.
4. Optionally install Mod Menu if you want a settings button in the mod list.
5. Launch the game with the Fabric profile.

You need Java 25 or newer. Recent Minecraft launchers install a suitable runtime automatically.

Configuration

Settings can be reached in three ways:

• the gear icon in the panel's title bar,
• the /clipchat command,
• Mod Menu, if it is installed,
• or the Open ClipChat settings keybind (unbound by default : assign it under Options → Controls → Key Binds).

Setting	Default	What it does
Show panel	On	Hides the panel entirely when off. Settings stay reachable via /clipchat.
Record copies	Off	Persists your Minecraft clipboard history to disk between sessions.
Windows history	Off	Adds the Windows tab, reading the system clipboard history live.
Theme	Dark	Dark, Light, High contrast or Classic.
Custom colours	—	Per-element colour overrides that take precedence over the theme.
Max entries	100	How many unpinned entries to keep before the oldest is dropped. 1–1000.
Max pinned	50	How many entries may be pinned at once. 1–500.
Max length	4096	Copied text longer than this is shortened before being stored. 16–65536.

The four built-in themes : Dark and Light on the top row, High contrast and Classic below.

Any individual colour can be overridden on top of the chosen theme, and overrides are kept when you switch theme.

Configuration files live under .minecraft/config/clipchat/. See Privacy for exactly what each one holds.

Keybindings and controls

The panel appears in the top right of the chat screen. Drag the title bar to move it, drag the bottom-right grip to resize it, and click the bar in the title to collapse it.

Action	Mouse	Keyboard
Move through entries	—	Ctrl + Up / Down
Insert into chat	Left click	Ctrl + Enter
Pin / unpin	Right click, or the pin icon	Ctrl + P
Delete	The cross icon	Ctrl + Delete
Switch source tab	Click the tab	Ctrl + Left / Right
Open settings	The gear icon	—

Every shortcut is held behind Ctrl because the chat box keeps keyboard focus while the panel is open: an unmodified arrow key belongs to Minecraft's sent-message history, and an unmodified letter belongs in the message you are typing.

Long text is shortened to fit the chat box's 256-character limit when inserted.

Privacy: what is stored, and where

Clipboard contents are sensitive by nature : passwords, tokens, personal messages. ClipChat is built so that you can see exactly what it keeps.

Three files are written, all under .minecraft/config/clipchat/:

File	Contents	Written when
history.json	Your Minecraft clipboard entries, as plain text	Only while Record copies is on
config.json	Settings: theme, colours, limits, toggles	On save
ui.json	Panel position, size, collapsed state	On move or resize

The Windows history tab

Off by default. When you switch it on, ClipChat reads the Windows clipboard history live from Windows each time you open the tab, and holds the result in memory only for as long as the tab is open. It is never written to history.json or to any other file, and turning the setting back off discards the in-memory copy immediately.

Because it is read on demand, nothing native runs at all until you both enable the setting and open the tab.

License

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0). The full text is in LICENSE.

You are free to share and adapt ClipChat, provided you give appropriate credit, do not use it for commercial purposes, and distribute any derivative under the same license.