Shared Clipboard

A CLI tool to share clipboard between devices in local area network

Start the application on multiple devices sharing the same network. Press the combination (by default: CTRL+SHIFT+S) to share the clipboard. Press the combination (by default: CTRL+SHIFT+A) on other device to adopt the clipboard.

Usage

sharedclipboard -n 192.168.0.0/24

Will run the application in foreground mode.

Daemon mode

sharedclipboard start -n 192.168.0.0/24

Will start the application in daemon mode.

sharedclipboard stop

Will stop the application running in daemon mode.

Options

• --network or -n --- Network to scan for peers running shared clipboard in CIDR format.
• --conf or -c --- Path to hotkeys config file.

Configuring hotkeys

To set custom hotkeys, create a textfile with contents like folowing:

Share=ctrl+s
Adopt=ctrl+a

Pass the file path to the application using --conf flag:

sharedclipboard start -n 192.168.0.0/24 -c ~/.sharedclipboard.conf

When writing hotkeys, follow the rules of github.com/trueaniki/go-parse-hotkeys. Separator is +.

Init command

Use init command to generate config file at ~/.shared-clipboard.conf:

sharedclipboard init

This will generate file with the following contents:

# Share=Ctrl+Shift+S
# Adopt=Ctrl+Shift+A

You can uncomment the lines and set hotkeys to whatever you want according to github.com/trueaniki/go-parse-hotkeys using + separator.

If you have ~/.shared-clipboard.conf file set up, no need to pass it exteranlly using --conf flag, it will be handled automatically.