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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?

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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.

I’ve used ditto for this since before windows gained this capability. It also has an ignore list (e.g. keepass lives there) and a few other niceties which make it one of the first tools I install on a windows box (not very often anymore, granted).

Ditto is unparalleled. Ugly, but unparalleled. I've been using it for ages and every time I use a system without it I feel it's absence.

I use a popup like that myself a lot. Clipman on xfce supports that but no pinning.

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...

Yes, I this is the feature I miss most; I'm almost ready to try to remember how to write in C.

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?

I looked at mine, and it only has entries from my current login session.

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.

Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this

Sometimes you have broken websites/apps so you gotta copypaste. Sometimes they even have fields where you can't paste either (K9mail on android) (I cry in 64 char password).

It'd be an interesting feature for a password manager to issue a system call to purge clipboard history on copying a password. Lots of password managers aren't just browser add-ons but full desktop apps

Yup as others have said, super+v for me invokes greenclip's rofi plugin which gives me a nice themable clipboard history overlay.

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.

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'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.

> I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux

Selection bias aside, Linux clipboards with history have existed for close to two decades, possibly more.

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