Share Clipboard Between 2 Computers

This project is designed to share the content of clipboard between 2 computers located in the same network. The server script is only designed for Linux and Mac, and the client script is designed for Linux, Mac and Windows.

But now, this project only support raw string data in clipboard. And the string can't be too long. I will add more options in the future.

Prepare

First, you need to configure a python 3 environment.

Environment	netClipClient.py	netClipServer.py
Windows	clipboard	\
Linux	xclip, PyQt5, clipboard	xclip, PyQt5, clipboard
Mac	clipboard	xclip, clipboard

Run the following commands to prepare the environment for both server side and client side of Linux system:

sudo apt-get install xclip
sudo pip3 install PyQt5==5.8.0
sudo pip3 install clipboard

Use "pip3 install clipboard" to install clipboard for Windows and Mac client side.

Use brew to install xclip for Mac server side.

How to use?

You can use the following command to get the usage message:

python3 netClipClient.py --help

Start the Server Side

You must start the server side firstly before starting the client side, use "-p" to specify which port is used to listen the connection:

python3 netClipServer.py -p 16068

Start the Client Side

You should specify the server IP address and server port when you start your client:

python3 netClipClient.py -p 16068 -a 10.193.0.11

Happy Use!

Now when you copy a string on one computer, you can directly paste it on another computer!