Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

Summary

Clyp Modern, fast, simple clipboard manager for Linux. Key Features Native application written in Go and GTK4. written in Go and GTK4. Modern, clean, simple interface with minimal distractions. with minimal distractions. Keyboard centric - Navigate, search, copy and delete items with keyboard. - Navigate, search, copy and delete items with keyboard. High performance - Optimized SQLite backend tested with 10,000+ records. - Optimized SQLite backend tested with 10,000+ records. Supports text and image content (up to 3 images) with image previews. (up to 3 images) with image previews. Full Wayland support - Works natively on both Wayland and X11. Installation Download Ubuntu or Arch Linux package. Visit latest release to download binares. Flatpak is work in progess. Usage Starting the Application clyp Or launch from your application menu. Keyboard Shortcuts Key Action Ctrl+F Toggle search Enter Copy selected item to clipboard Delete Remove selected item Escape Clear search / Close search bar ↑/↓ Navigate through clipboard history Basic Operations Automatic Clipboard Monitoring: Clyp automatically captures text and images copied to your clipboard Browse History: Use the main window to browse through your clipboard history Search: Press Ctrl+F to search through your clipboard content Quick Copy: Select any item and press Enter to copy it back to your clipboard Delete Items: Select unwanted items and press Delete to remove them Technical Details The watcher is a minimal headless Gtk application. It monitors the clipboard and notifies the GUI of database changes via a UNIX socket. Architecture Language : Go 1.25.0 : Go 1.25.0 GUI Framework : GTK4 via gotk4 bindings : GTK4 via gotk4 bindings Database : SQLite3 for persistent storage : SQLite3 for persistent storage Platform: Linux (Wayland/X11) Data Storage Clipboard data is stored in ~/.local/share/bio.murat.clyp/clyp.db using SQLite3. The database includes: Automatic timestamps for each clipboard entry Content type detect...