Glippy - Clipboard for Go

Couldn't find a go clipboard package which is both multi-platform and doesn't require additional installations. So this package is a combination of work of wonderful and talented people who created the packages mentioned in credits.

Supported Platforms:

• OSX
• Windows
• Linux, Unix (X11 and Wayland)
• OSC 52 fallback — used automatically over SSH or in headless environments where neither X11 nor Wayland is reachable

OSC 52 fallback

When the native clipboard is unavailable on Linux/FreeBSD (no X11 connection, or Wayland without wl-clipboard), Set falls back to writing an OSC 52 escape sequence to /dev/tty. Most modern terminals honor this: iTerm2, WezTerm, kitty, Alacritty, foot, and xterm (with allowWindowOps enabled).

• tmux: set set-option -g set-clipboard on in ~/.tmux.conf so tmux forwards the sequence. Glippy wraps the sequence in tmux's DCS passthrough when TMUX is set.
• Size limit: OSC 52 payloads are capped at ~75 KB of plaintext; larger selections return an error rather than silently truncating.
• Disable: set GLIPPY_DISABLE_OSC52=1 to skip this fallback entirely.
• Windows: OSC 52 is not used on Windows; the native clipboard path is always taken.

Quick Start

go get github.com/f1bonacc1/glippy

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/f1bonacc1/glippy"
)

func main(){
  // set clipboard text
  glippy.Set("Hello, Glippy")
  
  // get clipboard text
  text, err := glippy.Get()
  if err != nil{
    panic(err)
  }
  fmt.Print(text) // Output: "Hello, Glippy"
}

package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"
  "github.com/f1bonacc1/glippy"
)

func main(){
  // create clipboard watch channel
  ch := glippy.Watch(context.Background())
	
  for data := range ch {
    fmt.Println(data)
  }
}

Credits

https://github.com/atotto/clipboard

https://github.com/aarzilli/nucular

https://github.com/jezek/xgb