Clippis

Another offline, cool looking, comfortable, clipboard manager. Built with Tauri for Linux(gnome)

Screenshots

Captured in Ubuntu 22.04 x11. The app is not optimized for wayland yet.

Features

• No internet connection required. - [x] No data is sent to any server.
• All data is stored locally (scroll down to end of sidebar to see where database is located).
• Filter by
  • Text
  • Type of clipboard item
  • Date
  • App where the item was copied
• Search by text
• Supports html, text and images (files, uris and urls soon)
• Delete items from history
• Copy items from history
• Clipboard history items groupped by relative date
• Dark mode
• Some settings

Future features

• Autocompress images
• Support for files, uris and urls
• Sync across devices in the same network
• Blacklist apps
• Whitelist apps
• Drag and drop items from history
• Generate previews for urls, files and uris
• UI customization
• Virtualization for history item list
• Performance improvements (saving images to disk, loading images from disk, loading history items from database, optimizing image processing, etc)
• Support for other linux desktop environments
• Support for Windows
• Support for MacOS

Installation

1. Install dependencies

sudo apt install xclip

2. Download the latest release from here
3. Download the .deb file
4. Install it with sudo apt install <package-downloaded>
5. Replace <package-downloaded> with the path of the package downloaded in step 2
6. Clippis should be installed now. You can open it from the applications menu or by running clippis in the terminal

Goal

• Create a simple clipboard manager for linux
• Save clipboard history to database (~/.clipboard_history/db)

Dev dependencies

# sudo apt install xclip
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Libraries used

• arboard - for clipboard management
• chrono - for date and time
• clipboard_master - clipboard event listener
• homedir - for getting home directory
• once_cell - for lazy static initialization
• serde - for serialization and deserialization
• sled - for database
• bincode - for binary serialization and deserialization

Changes

• Clipboard listener working alone
• Clipboard data saved to Sled database
• Clipboard history tracking integrated with Tauri
• Images are saved to app data directory
• Images are loaded from disk and displayed in the UI as Recent images. A huge performance improvement
• Database footprint reduced by using bincode for serialization and deserialization and keeping files in disk instead of in database file
• Clipboard works with images. Now you can re-copy images from the clipboard history.