Omaclip

A desktop clipboard manager for Omarchy, works in Linux and macOS. It tracks your clipboard's history, lets you browse and copy items and is designed for a keyboard-first workflow.

clipmaster.mp4

When you run it on multiple machines peers will form a secure mesh, where they will auto-discover each other on the local network and share their clipboards.

It works on Linux and macOS, but it loves Omarchy, hot-reloading its color scheme the moment your OS theme changes.

• In-memory clipboard history text and images (PNG), up to 50 items (configurable)
• Keyboard navigation with shortcuts for quick copying (Ctrl+1..9)
• Expandable entries for viewing long text or larger image previews
• Live Omarchy theme support, colors update automatically when you switch themes
• Secure multi-machine sync, peers discover each other via mDNS and sync over HTTPS with certificate validation and a shared passphrase; only machines with the same passphrase can connect

Installation

Option 1 — AUR (recommended for Arch / Omarchy)

yay -S omaclip-bin

Option 2 — One-liner

The install script detects your OS, architecture, and package manager, installs the required dependencies, and places the binary in /usr/local/bin.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhemvi/omaclip/master/install.sh | sh

Option 3 — Manual installation

Linux

Install the runtime dependencies for your distro, then download and install the binary.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install libgtk-3-0 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 xclip
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-linux-amd64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S --needed gtk3 webkit2gtk-4.1 wl-clipboard
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-linux-amd64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

Fedora / RHEL

sudo dnf install gtk3 webkit2gtk4.1 wl-clipboard
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-linux-amd64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

openSUSE

sudo zypper install libgtk-3-0 libwebkit2gtk-4_1-0 xclip
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-linux-amd64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

For ARM64 machines replace omaclip-linux-amd64 with omaclip-linux-arm64.

macOS

No extra dependencies needed, macOS already ships with WebKit.

# Intel
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-darwin-amd64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

# Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3)
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rhemvi/omaclip/releases/latest/download/omaclip-darwin-arm64 -o omaclip
sudo install -m 755 omaclip /usr/local/bin/omaclip

Live Development

To run in live development mode, run wails dev in the project directory. This will run a Vite development server that will provide very fast hot reload of your frontend changes. If you want to develop in a browser and have access to your Go methods, there is also a dev server that runs on http://localhost:34115. Connect to this in your browser, and you can call your Go code from devtools.

Building

To build a redistributable, production ready package, run:

task app:build

Known Limitations

Clipboard monitoring on GNOME/Mutter (Wayland)

On desktops that use GNOME's Mutter compositor (Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, etc.), clipboard monitoring may cause brief focus flicker. This is a Wayland security restriction: the standard clipboard protocol only delivers content to the focused window, so wl-paste must briefly acquire focus on each poll cycle.

Compositors built on wlroots (Hyprland, Sway, etc.) are not affected because they support the wlr-data-control protocol, which allows background clipboard access without focus changes. On these compositors, omaclip uses event-driven watching with wl-paste --watch and no polling is needed.

X11 sessions and macOS are also unaffected.