feat(desktop): add clipboard history (task 0027) #19

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## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] A cliphist module (with wl-clipboard) exists in the desktop group and is enabled by the aggregator.
- [ ] Text and image copies are recorded to history.
- [ ] The history is picked through rofi and bound on `Super+Shift+V`.
- [ ] neogaia builds green under `nix flake check`.
- [x] A cliphist module (with wl-clipboard) exists in the desktop group and is enabled by the aggregator.
- [x] Text and image copies are recorded to history.
- [x] The history is picked through rofi and bound on `Super+Shift+V`.
- [x] neogaia builds green under `nix flake check`.
## Implementation Notes
- The module is named `clipboard`, not `cliphist`: cliphist is the tool it is built on, but the option a host enables names the capability.
- The two clipboard watchers are not hand-written: home-manager's `services.cliphist` module runs them as a pair of systemd user services, one for text and one for `--type image`.
`allowImages` defaults true, so enabling the service alone records both kinds.
- That module installs only `cliphist` on PATH and reaches `wl-clipboard` by store path, so `wl-copy`/`wl-paste` are added to `home.packages` here.
The spec asks for the module "with wl-clipboard", and a keyboard-driven session wants the two commands for piping to and from the clipboard.
- The services bind to `graphical-session.target`, which uwsm starts, matching how mako and hypridle attach to the session on this host.
No `systemdTargets` override is needed, since the module's default already resolves to that target.
- The picker is a small shell script over the same themed rofi the launcher uses (`cliphist list | rofi -dmenu | cliphist decode | wl-copy`), so history looks like every other menu.
Its keybind lives in this module rather than in `hyprland.nix`, contributed through `settings.bind`, keeping the command next to its binding and referenced by store path.
- No Waybar `window-rewrite` icon mapping was added: the watchers are headless daemons and the picker is a rofi layer surface, so nothing new ever appears as a tiled window on the workspace indicator the convention governs.
- Image entries render as a `[[ binary data … ]]` placeholder line in the rofi list rather than a thumbnail, but selecting one still decodes and re-copies the real image, so both kinds are retrievable.

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{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}:
# Clipboard history: cliphist records every copy, picked back through rofi.
let
cfg = config.modules.desktop.clipboard;
user = config.user.name;
cliphist = "${pkgs.cliphist}/bin/cliphist";
rofi = "${pkgs.rofi}/bin/rofi";
wl-copy = "${pkgs.wl-clipboard}/bin/wl-copy";
# The picker reuses the themed rofi, so history looks like every other menu
# the launcher drives.
# decode is needed because list emits id-prefixed lines rather than the copied
# bytes, so the chosen id has to be resolved back before it can be re-copied.
picker = pkgs.writeShellScript "clipboard-picker" ''
${cliphist} list \
| ${rofi} -dmenu -i -p Clipboard \
| ${cliphist} decode \
| ${wl-copy}
'';
in
{
options.modules.desktop.clipboard.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "cliphist clipboard history";
config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
home-manager.users.${user} = {
# wl-copy and wl-paste on PATH, so the shell can pipe into and out of the
# clipboard.
# The watchers and picker above reach wl-clipboard by store path, so this
# is for interactive use alone.
home.packages = [ pkgs.wl-clipboard ];
# Two watchers record text and images to history, bound to the graphical
# session so uwsm starts and stops them with it.
services.cliphist.enable = true;
# $mod is defined by the compositor config these binds share.
wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings.bind = [
"$mod SHIFT, V, exec, ${picker}"
];
};
};
}

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# Each piece is turned on at default priority, so a host can still override
# any one of them while the single flag above enables the whole desktop.
config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
modules.desktop.clipboard.enable = lib.mkDefault true;
modules.desktop.hyprland.enable = lib.mkDefault true;
modules.desktop.hyprlock.enable = lib.mkDefault true;
modules.desktop.hypridle.enable = lib.mkDefault true;