LeoClip is a small clipboard history tool for Mac OS X Leopard on PowerPC.
It is designed as a quiet, native menu bar utility that feels at home on Mac OS X 10.5.8. LeoClip is not a productivity platform, not a snippet manager, and not a clipboard database.
Design rule:
Copy. Remember. Restore.
LeoClip status menu with clipboard history on Mac OS X Leopard.
- remembers recent text clipboard entries
- restores clips from the menu bar
- supports Command-number restore shortcuts
- detects duplicate clips and moves them to the top
- can pause and resume Clipboard History
- shows a distinct paused status glyph
- keeps history in memory only
- uses localized menu strings
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
- PowerPC Mac
Download the latest LeoClip-0.7.1-Leopard-PPC.dmg from the GitHub Releases page.
LeoClip uses compact Unicode status glyphs instead of image resources:
| State | Glyph | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Active | ⧉ | Clipboard history is recording |
| Paused | ⧈ | Clipboard history is paused |
This keeps the menu bar item small, scalable, and resource-free.
LeoClip keeps clipboard history in memory only.
Quitting LeoClip clears the stored history. LeoClip does not write clipboard history to disk, does not sync clipboard contents, does not use the network, and does not send data anywhere.
This is intentional.
LeoClip follows native Leopard menu bar behavior where possible.
The status menu is intentionally small:
About LeoClip
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Clipboard history items
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Pause or Resume Clipboard History
Clear History
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Quit LeoClip
About LeoClip is placed first as a separated item, matching classic Mac application-menu expectations.
The About window uses Cocoa's standard About panel instead of a custom window.
Clear History asks for confirmation before removing stored clips. The menu item does not use an ellipsis because the alert is a warning/confirmation step, not a request for additional information needed to complete the command.
LeoClip activates itself before showing About or Clear History dialogs, so those windows appear in front of other applications.
Source/LeoClip/ active LeoClip source
*.lproj/ localized Cocoa resources, kept at project root for Xcode 3.1 compatibility
assets/images/ README and release images
docs/ project notes
tests/ command-line smoke tests
tools/ release and verification scripts
LeoClip.xcodeproj/ Xcode 3.1.4 project
Info.plist application bundle metadata
LeoClip includes localized menu strings for:
- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Polish
- Swedish
- Russian
- Finnish
- Dutch
LeoClip is intentionally small, but its code is split by responsibility:
LCAppDelegate
App lifecycle, status item, menu construction, timer orchestration.
LCClipboardHistory
In-memory clipboard history model, duplicate handling, history limit, clear behavior.
LCPasteboardMonitor
Leopard pasteboard bridge, changeCount tracking, text extraction, restore synchronization.
The app delegate orchestrates. The model and pasteboard bridge own their own logic.
Clipboard history remains in memory only.
LeoClip builds with Xcode 3.1.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard PowerPC.
xcodebuild -project LeoClip.xcodeproj \
-target LeoClip \
-configuration Debug \
-sdk macosx10.5 \
ARCHS=ppc \
ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES \
buildThe built app appears at:
build/Debug/LeoClip.app
LeoClip currently handles text clipboard history only.
This is intentional. The goal is a small, stable Leopard PowerPC clipboard-history utility before any additional clipboard types are considered.
Not included:
- snippets
- JavaScript actions
- updater framework
- login item management
- cloud sync
- persistent clipboard database
- preferences window
LeoClip is released under the MIT License.
LeoClip started as a ClipMenu source-tree exploration. The current repository contains a separate, minimal Leopard PowerPC implementation.