Clipbard

A clipboard history desktop app

• Built using PySimpleGUI / PySimpleGUIQt / pyperclip
• Can be compiled into binary/executable using pyinstaller to be cross-platform, standalone desktop application

Usage

1. create a virtual environment using Python 3.6+
2. (venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
3. (venv)$ python clipboard.py

The app runs with a window and system tray icon.

To build desktop app (so far, only tested on Lubuntu 18.04LTS)

1. (venv)$ pip install pyinstaller inside your virtual environment
2. (venv)$ pyinstaller --add-data "resources/*:resources" --onefile clipbard.py

• Optionally, for Windows/MacOS you can convert one of the .png files in the resources directory into a .ico or .icns
• Then you can pass the argument -i resources/<icon file>.icns (or .ico for Windows) to give the resulting app bundle an icon

3. The --onefile argument makes a dist/ directory containing a single, executable binary clipbard

TODO:

• Incorporate a RDBMS system like SQLite3 (instead of simple JSON file) to add dates, hashing, etc to history data
• Test functionality with Windows / MacOS
• Once RDBM is used, make clipboard history searchable (fuzzy/elasticsearch?)
• Allow users to add manual entries to clipboard
• Edit (and re-order?) entries