Netboard is a client/server application that allows to share your clipboard between different devices. It works by deploying a server, then running client on your devices to sync the clipboard.
The server uses websockets or chunked http encoding to push data to client, and while it is easier to handle the client part with the netboard client, it’s perfectly possible to integrate it with anything else, like good old curl.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Uses mutual TLS to authenticate the clients.
- Can run using 2 modes, controlled by the –mode flag:
- lib: Uses native clipboard management libraries. This requires CGO and only works partially under Wayland
- wl-clipboard: Uses wl-copy and wl-paste utilities to handle the clipboard. This only works under Wayland.
- Choose to use either chunked HTTP encoding (
--websocket false) or websockets (--websocket true, the default). Websocket should offer better and faster pushes and connectivity loss detection.
Website: github.com/primalmotion/netboard
Support:
Developer: primalmotion
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Netboard is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Clipboard Sync Tools | |
|---|---|
| ClipCascade | Cross-platform clipboard synchronisation utility |
| UniClipboard | Real-time clipboard sync across all your devices |
| DecentPaste | Privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based universal clipboard service |
| ClipShare Server | Share clipboard and files |
| ClipShare | Flutter-based clipboard history and synchronization application |
| Clipboard Sync | Synchronization tool for X11 and Wayland instances |
| Clipbird | Cross-platform clipboard synchronization application |
| ClusterCut | Keeps your clipboard in sync across Linux, macOS, and Windows |
| netboard | Share your clipboard between different devices |
| Clipboard Bridge | Clipboard synchronization tool |
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