Hauva

Simple clipboard manager for Wayland

Features

• Text-only clipboard history (default 50 entries)
• De-duplication and persistent history (~/.cache/hauva_history)
• Fast IPC via Unix sockets (/tmp/hauva.sock)
• Integrates with wl-clipboard and wmenu for selection and copy

Requirements

• Wayland compositor
• wmenu (entry selection)
• wl-clipboard (wl-copy, wl-paste)
• gcc, make

Build & Install

make
make install

Usage

Start the daemon:

./build/hauvad &

The hauva daemon maintains history and listens to clipboard

Client commands:

• hauva add — Add clipboard entry from stdin (manual addition)
• hauva list — List entries (one per line, for menu pickers)
• hauva copy — Copy selected entry (from stdin, e.g. wmenu output)

Systemd services

Example user service file (edit paths as needed):

~/.config/systemd/user/hauva.service

[Unit]
Description=Hauva daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/hauvad
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Tips

• Bind hauva-ui to some key on your wm
• Use with dmenu or other menus by editing the hauva-ui.sh script

Future stuff

• X11 support
• Images and other MIME types
• Qt/gtk app