causalityzach / clipboard-manager

Clippy - A minimalistic clipboard manager in python

A clipboard manager in python, built using tkinter and pyperclip

Demo

Step by step explanation

I have published an article on Medium here which goes through all aspects of this application.

How to run Clippy

• Clone the repo
• Use virtualenv to create a virtual env with python>=3.6
• Run python setup.py install (it will install all the required dependencies)
• Run python src/clippy.py

How to run tests

• Run python setup.py test

How to make it a standalone Mac OS X application file

I used py2app to make standalone application bundles.

To make the standalone app, just run:

• python setup.py py2app

It will create the .app file under the dist folder, which you can copy to your Applications folder in your Mac, and open Clippy just like any other application!

Note: If you are using macOS 10.7 or later, the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 still has serious bugs that can cause application crashes while using py2app. If you wish to use IDLE or Tkinter, install and use a newer version of Python and of Tcl/Tk. Use this link to update.