Clipwire

Copy on one machine. Paste on the other.

Two computers that can't share a clipboard — your laptop and a remote VM, a work machine and a personal one, a virtual desktop and the laptop in front of you. Clipwire moves text between them without leaving the editor.

Everything is encrypted on your machine before it leaves. The server that carries it can never read it.

Getting started

1. Install Clipwire on both machines.

2. Click the Clipwire icon in the Activity Bar on the left. Type the same channel id on both machines and press Connect:

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That id is also the password — pick something only you would choose, and make it long.

3. Check the fingerprint shown at the top of the panel. Both machines should show the same eight characters. If they match, you're connected.

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The panel

Everything lives in one place:


Channel ID	Type an id and press Connect. The same box joins an existing channel — whoever connects first creates it.
Fingerprint	Eight characters at the top once connected. They must match on both machines.
Send	Type or paste, press Send.
Refresh	Pull in whatever has arrived.
Insert / Copy	On each item — drop it at your cursor, or put it on your clipboard.
Clear	Erase the channel for every machine on it.
Leave	Forget the channel on this machine only.

Each item is labelled with the machine it came from.

An example

On machine one — type it in the box, press Send:

git checkout -b fix/login-redirect

On machine two — press Refresh, then Insert.

The text appears at your cursor. That's it.

Without the panel

Select text in the editor, right-click → Clipwire → Send Selection. On the other machine, run Clipwire: Insert Latest at Cursor.

Worth a keybinding if you do it often:

{ "key": "cmd+alt+c", "command": "clipwire.sendSelection", "when": "editorHasSelection" },
{ "key": "cmd+alt+v", "command": "clipwire.insertLatest" }

Commands

Command	What it does
Connect to a Channel	Pair this machine using a channel id
Send Selection	Send the selected text
Send Clipboard	Send whatever you last copied
Insert Latest at Cursor	Paste the newest item into the editor
Copy Latest to Clipboard	Put the newest item on your clipboard
Show History	Pick from recent items
Clear Channel History	Erase everything in the channel
Disconnect	Forget the channel on this machine

Is it safe

It's a tool that sends your clipboard off your machine, so the short answer matters:

Encrypted before it leaves. The server stores sealed text it has no key for.
Your id is never stored or shown. It's stretched and kept in the OS keychain. The fingerprint you see is derived one way from it and gives nothing away.
The clipboard is never watched. Nothing leaves until you press Send or run the command. Nothing is picked up in the background.
It warns you. If what you're sending looks like a password, key or token, it asks first.
No tracking. No telemetry, no analytics, one server it talks to.
You can host the server yourself — it's in the repo — and point Clipwire at it with Set Relay URL.

Source: github.com/AravindBaranitharan/copyme

About

I'm Aravind Baranitharan, an AI engineer.

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License

MIT