murat-cileli/clyp: Clipboard manager for Linux.

Modern, fast, simple clipboard manager for Linux.

• Native application written in Go and GTK4.
• Modern, clean, simple interface with minimal distractions.
• Keyboard centric – Navigate, search, copy and delete items with keyboard.
• High performance – Optimized SQLite backend tested with 10,000+ records.
• Supports text and image content (up to 3 images) with image previews.
• Full Wayland support – Works natively on both Wayland and X11.

Or launch from your application menu.

1. Automatic Clipboard Monitoring: Clyp automatically captures text and images copied to your clipboard
2. Browse History: Use the main window to browse through your clipboard history
3. Search: Press Ctrl+F to search through your clipboard content
4. Quick Copy: Select any item and press Enter to copy it back to your clipboard
5. Delete Items: Select unwanted items and press Delete to remove them

The watcher is a minimal headless Gtk application. It monitors the clipboard and notifies the GUI of database changes via a UNIX socket.

• Language: Go 1.25.0
• GUI Framework: GTK4 via gotk4 bindings
• Database: SQLite3 for persistent storage
• Platform: Linux (Wayland/X11)

Clipboard data is stored in ~/.local/share/bio.murat.clyp/clyp.db using SQLite3. The database includes:

• Automatic timestamps for each clipboard entry
• Content type detection (text/image)
• Duplicate prevention
• Efficient indexing for fast searches

Clyp follows XDG Base Directory specifications:

• Data Directory: ~/.local/share/bio.murat.clyp/
• Database File: ~/.local/share/bio.murat.clyp/clyp.db

git clone https://github.com/murat-cileli/clyp.git
cd clyp
go mod download
go build .

• github.com/diamondburned/gotk4/pkg – GTK4 bindings for Go
• github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 – SQLite3 driver for Go

├── app.go          # Main application logic and UI setup
├── clipboard.go    # Clipboard monitoring and operations
├── database.go     # SQLite database operations
├── main.go         # Application entry point
├── resources/      # UI definitions and CSS styles
├── data/           # Desktop files and metadata
└── vendor/         # Vendored dependencies

• Add import/export.
• Add database encryption.

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