Vito

Vito is a desktop clipboard history manager for Windows, written in Java (JavaFX). It captures every copied text and image, lets you mark entries as important or favorite, search through the history, and bring up the window with a global keyboard shortcut.

Table of contents

• Download
• Installation
• About
• Features
• Autostart with Windows
• Building the .exe
• Project structure

Download

Grab the latest Windows build from the Releases page - download the zip, unzip it anywhere, and run Vito.exe. No Java installation required, the runtime is bundled inside.

Installation

• Clone the repository: git clone <repo-address>
• Open the project in IntelliJ IDEA as a Maven project - dependencies (JavaFX, JNativeHook, JNA) will be fetched automatically
• Run the org.example.Main class

Want a ready-made .exe without an IDE? See Download or Building the .exe.

About

Vito is a clipboard history manager:

• browse the history of copied text and images,
• dark theme with its own logo,
• runs in the background (tray) + global keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+V,
• optional autostart with Windows,
• packaged into a native .exe via jpackage.

Features

Feature	Description
Clipboard history	Automatically saves text and images from the clipboard, persisted to disk so it survives a restart
Favorites	Entries marked as favorite are pinned to the top of the list and never removed from history
Important	Highlights an entry with a colored accent
Search	Live filtering of the history by content
Date	Each entry shows a visible timestamp
Tray + hotkey	The app runs in the background, bring the window back with Ctrl+Alt+V
Dark title bar	The native Windows title bar is dark too (DWM API)

Autostart with Windows

1. Run Vito.exe
2. Right-click the tray icon (bottom-right corner of the taskbar)
3. Check "Autostart z Windowsem"

From now on Vito will start automatically (in the background, in the tray) every time you log into Windows. Uncheck the same option to disable it. This only works with the packaged .exe - running the app from an IDE disables the option on purpose.

Building the .exe

./scripts/package-windows.ps1

The script builds the project with Maven and then packages it with jpackage into a self-contained Vito.exe in the dist/Vito folder (bundled with a Java runtime - no JDK required on the target machine).

Project structure

org.example
├── Main.java        - entry point, wires everything together
├── Launcher.java     - helper launcher for jpackage
├── model/            - ClipboardEntry (text/image + flags)
├── clipboard/        - listens to and writes to the system clipboard
├── history/          - history logic (dedup, size limit, pinning favorites)
├── ui/               - JavaFX UI (window, list cells)
├── tray/             - system tray icon
├── hotkey/           - global keyboard shortcut (JNativeHook)
└── platform/         - Windows integrations (dark title bar, autostart)