diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DesktopConnection.java b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DesktopConnection.java
index 3c09e725..dcc9863b 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DesktopConnection.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DesktopConnection.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.FileDescriptor;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 public final class DesktopConnection implements Closeable {
@@ -21,14 +22,16 @@ public final class DesktopConnection implements Closeable {
 
     private final LocalSocket controlSocket;
     private final InputStream controlInputStream;
-
+    private final OutputStream controlOutputStream;
 
     private final ControlEventReader reader = new ControlEventReader();
+    private final DeviceEventWriter writer = new DeviceEventWriter();
 
     private DesktopConnection(LocalSocket videoSocket, LocalSocket controlSocket) throws IOException {
         this.videoSocket = videoSocket;
         this.controlSocket = controlSocket;
         controlInputStream = controlSocket.getInputStream();
+        controlOutputStream = controlSocket.getOutputStream();
         videoFd = videoSocket.getFileDescriptor();
     }
 
@@ -109,4 +112,8 @@ public final class DesktopConnection implements Closeable {
         }
         return event;
     }
+
+    public void sendDeviceEvent(DeviceEvent event) throws IOException {
+        writer.writeTo(event, controlOutputStream);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DeviceEventWriter.java b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DeviceEventWriter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e183a221
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DeviceEventWriter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.genymobile.scrcpy;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+public class DeviceEventWriter {
+
+    public static final int CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH = 4093;
+    private static final int MAX_EVENT_SIZE = CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH + 3;
+
+    private final byte[] rawBuffer = new byte[MAX_EVENT_SIZE];
+    private final ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(rawBuffer);
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:MagicNumber")
+    public void writeTo(DeviceEvent event, OutputStream output) throws IOException {
+        buffer.clear();
+        buffer.put((byte) DeviceEvent.TYPE_GET_CLIPBOARD);
+        switch (event.getType()) {
+            case DeviceEvent.TYPE_GET_CLIPBOARD:
+                String text = event.getText();
+                byte[] raw = text.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+                int len = StringUtils.getUtf8TruncationIndex(raw, CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH);
+                buffer.putShort((short) len);
+                buffer.put(raw, 0, len);
+                output.write(rawBuffer, 0, buffer.position());
+                break;
+            default:
+                Ln.w("Unknown device event: " + event.getType());
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventController.java b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventController.java
index 5bb79de3..4bda0f3d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventController.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventController.java
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ import android.view.MotionEvent;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
-
 public class EventController {
 
     private final Device device;
     private final DesktopConnection connection;
+    private final EventSender sender;
 
     private final KeyCharacterMap charMap = KeyCharacterMap.load(KeyCharacterMap.VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD);
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ public class EventController {
         this.device = device;
         this.connection = connection;
         initPointer();
+        sender = new EventSender(connection);
     }
 
     private void initPointer() {
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ public class EventController {
         }
     }
 
+    public EventSender getSender() {
+        return sender;
+    }
+
     private void handleEvent() throws IOException {
         ControlEvent controlEvent = connection.receiveControlEvent();
         switch (controlEvent.getType()) {
@@ -96,7 +101,7 @@ public class EventController {
 
     private boolean injectChar(char c) {
         String decomposed = KeyComposition.decompose(c);
-        char[] chars = decomposed != null ? decomposed.toCharArray() : new char[] {c};
+        char[] chars = decomposed != null ? decomposed.toCharArray() : new char[]{c};
         KeyEvent[] events = charMap.getEvents(chars);
         if (events == null) {
             return false;
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventSender.java b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventSender.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9f50b16a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/EventSender.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.genymobile.scrcpy;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public final class EventSender {
+
+    private final DesktopConnection connection;
+
+    private String clipboardText;
+
+    public EventSender(DesktopConnection connection) {
+        this.connection = connection;
+    }
+
+    public synchronized void pushClipboardText(String text) {
+        clipboardText = text;
+        notify();
+    }
+
+    public void loop() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        while (true) {
+            String text;
+            synchronized (this) {
+                while (clipboardText == null) {
+                    wait();
+                }
+                text = clipboardText;
+                clipboardText = null;
+            }
+            DeviceEvent event = DeviceEvent.createGetClipboardEvent(text);
+            connection.sendDeviceEvent(event);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/Server.java b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/Server.java
index db192dd1..25cb15e6 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/Server.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/Server.java
@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ public final class Server {
         try (DesktopConnection connection = DesktopConnection.open(device, tunnelForward)) {
             ScreenEncoder screenEncoder = new ScreenEncoder(options.getSendFrameMeta(), options.getBitRate());
 
+            EventController controller = new EventController(device, connection);
+
             // asynchronous
-            startEventController(device, connection);
+            startEventController(controller);
+            startEventSender(controller.getSender());
 
             try {
                 // synchronous
@@ -32,12 +35,12 @@ public final class Server {
         }
     }
 
-    private static void startEventController(final Device device, final DesktopConnection connection) {
+    private static void startEventController(final EventController controller) {
         new Thread(new Runnable() {
             @Override
             public void run() {
                 try {
-                    new EventController(device, connection).control();
+                    controller.control();
                 } catch (IOException e) {
                     // this is expected on close
                     Ln.d("Event controller stopped");
@@ -46,6 +49,20 @@ public final class Server {
         }).start();
     }
 
+    private static void startEventSender(final EventSender sender) {
+        new Thread(new Runnable() {
+            @Override
+            public void run() {
+                try {
+                    sender.loop();
+                } catch (IOException | InterruptedException e) {
+                    // this is expected on close
+                    Ln.d("Event sender stopped");
+                }
+            }
+        }).start();
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:MagicNumber")
     private static Options createOptions(String... args) {
         if (args.length != 5) {