The clipboard is a temporary storage for your copied stuff which can be text, picture or any data
to manage your clipboard you can use diodon
Diodon is a lightweight clipboard manager written in vala. It is made for unity interface but also works fine in gnome, cinnamon and xfce. it is shown in the indicator in menu and all copied text appear in it
once installed the diodon icon appears on the notification area
Install Diodon:
First Add the repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
Now, Update the sources
sudo apt-get update
Finally install diodon
sudo apt-get install diodon
Now search for it in the dash and launch it.
