zclip

A tool to manage and sync your clipboard between devices.

To get started, build and install the program with a prefix of /usr/local (whatever you like works, just update the systemd unit file).

Maybe later I will write an install script people can pipe to bash etc.

zig build -Doptimize=safe
sudo install -m 755 -d zig-out /usr/local
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
cp zclip.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl enable --now zclip

Now the daemon will be started, and stopped when you log out of your graphical session.

Website

See the project website @nullndvoid.xyz. It doesn't currently contain much but I will eventually get around to populating it with documentation, as well as publishing devlogs on there.

TODOs

• CLI interface for listing clipboard items
• Nice GUI <-- Possibly as a separate app anyway? Qt perhaps or something Zig-native.
• System tray icon
• For files/large pastes, transmit the file lazily, with type file_preview or something similar. Then the data can be a thumbnail if present.
• TUI-style pickers/wizards if you do not specify any positional arguments.

Maybe something like this already exists but this would be a nice tool to have :)

In fact, you could probably use KDE Connect but I have had my issues with it, and it has many features I am less worried about.

Notes

When developing you should check changes compile on various platforms with zig build check -Dtarget=x86_64-os-abi. This is less of a concern now that most platform specific stuff lives in clipboard-zig.

ZLS should do this for us since there is a check step defined.

Authors

• J. Hinchliffe (nullndvoid)