Clipcat

Jul 20, 2023

Clipcat is a clipboard manager written in Rust

Clipcat is a clipboard manager written in Rust Programming Language.

Clipcat uses the Client-Server architecture. There are two role types in this architecture Server and Client.

A clipcat server as known as daemon is running as the background process and does the following routines

  • Watching the changes of X11 clipboard.
  • Caching the content of X11 clipboard.
  • Inserting content into X11 clipboard.
  • Serving as a gRPC server and waiting for remote procedure call from clients.

A clipcat client sends requests to the server for the following operations

  • List list the cached clips from server.
  • Insert replace the current content of X11 clipboard with a clip.
  • Remove remove the cached clips from server.


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