Shared Clipboard

[g-h-97]

Hi,

I think it's really useful to have the clipboard shared between multiple machines, is the lack of this due a technical limitation in order guarantee cross compatibility ? or is it possible ?

[netizen-ais]

IMHO, while it's true that clipboard sharing would be a useful thing, it's completely out of the scope of this project.

[g-h-97]

Hi @netizen-ais ,

Thanks for the response, I see. You're going for Unix approach ;)

The issue is that there is no alternative that is "Unixy" enough tool for clipboard sharing that's clean and open source, any ideas ?

Edit: typos

[netizen-ais]

You're right about my Unix philosophy approach, @g-h-97. A quick search gave me a couple of tools:

• https://github.com/trueaniki/shared-clipboard (LGTM)
• https://github.com/zachhuff386/clipsync (Maybe X11 only)

[g-h-97]

I really appreciate the suggestions @netizen-ais .

It seems that shared-clipboard is a relatively new project and it doesn't support encryption which is deal breaker for me. However, clipsync seems really promising TBF.

I also found an AUR package while looking for clipsync :)

It's clipboard-sync which seems suspiciously similar, although, it's written in rust which makes it that much more interesting (I think it does not support encryption)

[netizen-ais]

The latest one (rust) is not for network usage, just localhost, if I did read correctly, but I was wrong about clipsync being X11 only

[g-h-97]

Yup, I just realized this. I finally settled with uniclip.