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121 points

Nevermind simply having an OS-level clipboard manager…

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Win+V works decently enough for me.

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41 points

Same for plasma, global clipboard is just more convenient

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13 points

Global clipboard is chef’s kiss. Back when I was on Ubuntu/Gnome, I had to install CopyQ but having one come with the OS is great

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3 points

Global clipboard synced with the smartphone thanks to KDE connect !

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8 points

I think windows+v syncs to microsoft servers or something. I remember when I was running chris titus tech’s debloat script it removed that functionality.

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I googled it, there is an option to sync it to your Microsoft account, but I can’t say whether that’s on by default when you turn on clipboard history because I skipped adding a Microsoft account. But if it is, you can turn it off in Settings -> System -> Clipboard.

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8 points

Holy crap I think that may be why I never used it. Fuck how much Windows likes to calls home

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1 point

An excellent option to have when one of the major use cases for clipboards is as an intermediary for password managers.

I hope they eventually get sued into the fucking ground.

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I’m don’t know why but I’ve never used windows clipboard manager, which is weird because I go out of my way to make sure I have one when I’m on linux

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18 points

There is for windows, and it’s further improved if you get power toys too

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I took a look through my power toys settings, but couldn’t find anything there that had to do with the win+v clipboard history. Google hasn’t been any help either. What is it that I’m overlooking? How does powertoys improve the clipboard history feature?

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I’m currently not on my windows pc at the moment but it could be that it’s functionality might actually be native to win 11? I don’t realise use it myself I just remember seeing it when originally getting powertoys and thinking that was cool

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Application specific buffers are the first thing I disable on emacs. The OS one isn’t just integrated with every other normal piece of software, it’s also more powerful and easier to use.

… at least on my Linux, YMMV.

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5 points

The os buffer is just another buffer that I can yank into.

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9 points

Windows also has it, but it’s disabled by default for some reason

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It’s not disabled.

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5 points

Or the KDE System tray…

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Ah, that is what I meant with OS-level clipboard manager (in fact, that is precisely what I thought of).

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Oh, I gotcha now

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3 points

Nah that’d be too intuitive

In all seriousness though, I kinda appreciate moving things around in my editor without losing that one snipet I copied for later

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