cross-clipboard

Cross Clipboard

A multi device clipboard sharing over P2P network.

Features

• Share text/image clipboard data (Done) - user can share clipboard data with other devices
• P2P connection (Done) - the device will connect to others using the P2P connection
• Multicast DNS (Done) - discover a device in the same network
• E2E encryption (Done) - encrypt the clipboard data using OpenPGP
• Cross-platform desktop (Done) - support Windows, Linux, and Darwin (macOS)
• Terminal GUI (Done) - terminal user interface for the end user
• Cross-platform mobile (Plan) - support iOS and Android

Libraries

• libp2p
• protobuf
• clipboard

Installation

Go install

for Go user you can just install using go package

go install github.com/ntsd/cross-clipboard@latest

Homebrew tap install

brew tap ntsd/cross-clipboard
brew install cross-clipboard

Headless Linux

for headless linux you might need to install xvfb.

# install libx11-dev abd Xvfb
sudo apt install -y libx11-dev xvfb

# initialize a virtual frame buffer (can put in .profile)
Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
export DISPLAY=:99.0

Run

UI mode

cross-clipboard

Terminal mode

cross-clipboard -t

Development

git clone https://github.com/ntsd/cross-clipboard
go run main.go

Build

Build Desktop

go build .

Build Mobile (Plan)

• Install NDK >=21.3.6528147

• Install Go mobile

go install golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gomobile@latest

gomobile build mobile/...

Protobuf gen

Generate a protobuf go file using protoc

protoc --go_out=. --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=. --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative data.proto

TODO

• Publish to Deb package (Ongoing)
• Fix bug on this PNG image https://mdg.imgix.net/assets/images/tux.png?auto=format&fit=clip&q=40&w=100 (Ongoing)
• Unit testing (Plan)