Comment by bornfreddy a day ago
One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective.
You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus.
I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?
The "Clipboard History"[0] Gnome extension also does this quite well in my experience. I also recently switched from Windows 11 (to Ubuntu), very happy so far.
Edit: Supports pinning and binding it to Super+V as well!
[0] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4839/clipboard-histor...
I configured copyq to work exactly like this, so it's doable.
Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates.
How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?
That, and it only has about 10 of them. But anyway, if someone can access your clipboard manager then that's not very good...
If someone has access to your computer to access your clipboard history, you're already been pwned and the clipboard with random scattered entries is the least of your worries.
I'm using Gnome. On Gnome, you could just install "Clipboard Indicator" or something like this in Gnome Extension and set shortcut as "Super+V". It's pretty easy, I think.
https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history
Can show last N entries and has a search bar as well, so you can click type away and cycle through results with TAB. Supports pinning as well.
I love that feature too. I replicated it with this. https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist
In addition to what is shown here, I added a job that runs every 5 minutes which prunes the history so that I can comfortably copy sensitive information as well.
KDE's default clipboard manager lets you summon a list (and you can change what shortcut to invoke it and do things like use a shortcut to move to the next clipboard entry) and edit entries. It doesn't let you pin them though, I think.