go-wlroots vs clipman

go-wlroots

Go binding for wlroots (by swaywm)

Wlroots Bindings

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clipman

A simple clipboard manager for Wayland (by yory8)

clipboard-manager Clipboard Sway Wayland Wlroots

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go-wlroots		clipman
	Project
1	Mentions	17
115	Stars	483
2.6%	Growth	-
5.5	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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go-wlroots

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-wlroots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-31.

What libraries would allow drawing windowless overlays?
3 projects | /r/golang | 31 Aug 2021

For Sway you can use the go bindings for wlroots. https://github.com/swaywm/go-wlroots

clipman

Posts with mentions or reviews of clipman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.

Copying/moving files using GUI file managers
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 15 Feb 2023
Ctrl+C not working 100% of the time (not in terminal)
1 project | /r/archlinux | 26 Jan 2023
Clipboard manager for wayland/swaywm
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 25 Nov 2022
How the Clipboard Works
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022

lots results when I google 'wayland clipboard manager' - here's the first
https://github.com/yory8/clipman
I need a clipboard manager that work with wayland
3 projects | /r/Fedora | 11 Jun 2022
Mouse icon and clipboard
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 29 May 2022

Use a clipboard manager like clipman or cliphist
Struggling to find clipman config that doesn't break something
1 project | /r/swaywm | 20 Jul 2021
What's your wayland clipboard approach for rich media?
1 project | /r/swaywm | 3 Jul 2021
Question: Integrating my system clipboard manager into telescope and struggling with parsing...
1 project | /r/neovim | 2 Jun 2021

So basically I am trying to integrate https://github.com/yory8/clipman
Do I need Wl-Clipboard ??
1 project | /r/swaywm | 22 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-wlroots and clipman you can also consider the following projects:

glfw - Go bindings for GLFW 3

cliphist - wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia

nwg-bar - GTK3-based button bar for wlroots-based compositors

wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

macdriver - Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

go-python3 - Go bindings to the CPython-3 API

gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator - Clipboard Manager extension for Gnome-Shell - Adds a clipboard indicator to the top panel, and saves text and images clipboard.

swappy - A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator - The most popular clipboard manager for GNOME, with over 1M downloads