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+# Susuwatari
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+Named after the soot balls in Ghibli movies, it is a clipboard with history.
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+## How does it work ?
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+Relying on xclip and dmenu (tailored to my computer) it saves the selections that were copied in a list and provides a search bar to find old selections when called.