ClipD is a lightweight and minimal clipboard manager application developed using C++ and Qt5, designed to help users efficiently manage copied text snippets. It aims to offer simplicity, performance, and essential clipboard features in a clean and user-friendly interface.
⚠️ Note: This project is still under development and not yet feature-complete.
✨ Features
- 📝 Live Clipboard Monitoring – Automatically detects and stores copied text.
- 🧾 List of Copied Snippets – Keeps a history of your copied items.
- ➕ Smart Preview – Shows the first 15 words of each copied text with ellipsis (
...). - 🔍 Detail View – Allows viewing the full copied text in a separate window.
- 📋 One-Click Copy – Click on any item to re-copy it to the clipboard.
- 🎯 System Tray Integration – Runs silently in the background, accessible from the tray (Planned).
- 🚀 Fast & Lightweight – Optimized for low-spec systems and minimal resource usage.
🧠 Benefits
- Increase productivity by avoiding re-copying the same content.
- Useful for programmers, writers, and students who deal with repetitive text.
- Works well on Linux with limited resources (e.g., Atom CPUs and <2GB RAM).
- Simple and elegant design with no clutter.
🔧 Installation & Usage
Currently, this project is being tested and built manually. Automated installers will be provided later.
To compile:
qmake project.pro && make && make clean
./ClipdDependencies:
- Qt5 (QtWidgets, QtGui, QtCore)
- g++
📌 Roadmap
- Basic UI and layout
- Clipboard text capture
- Full text view window
- System tray support
- Settings page (limit history, theme toggle, etc.)
- Save history to disk
👨💻 Author
Made with ❤️ by Yassin (YasDev)
Feel free to contribute or suggest features via issues or pull requests.
📜 License
This project will be licensed under an open-source license once it reaches a stable version. (MIT)