Running from Source

git clone https://github.com/yavuzselimsahin/shared-clipboard.git
cd shared-clipboard
pip install -r requirements.txt
python tray_client.py

This is also how Linux users run it, since there is no prebuilt Linux binary yet.

System packages on Linux

• X11: xclip, python3-tk, libappindicator3-1
• Wayland: wl-clipboard, python3-tk

# Debian and Ubuntu, X11
sudo apt install xclip python3-tk libappindicator3-1

Without the clipboard tool the application starts but cannot read or write the clipboard, which looks like a synchronisation failure rather than a missing package.

A virtual environment

Worth it if you have other Python projects on the machine:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate      # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt