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Clipboard has been unstable on every OS (especially on Desktop - and I mean Linux, Windows and Mac), and I think part of the culprit is apps like Teams and Discord, if you Ctrl + C by mistake on an empty text box, IT COPIES THE EMPTY TEXT BOX effectively wiping your clipboard. It's the most irritating UX and it took me years to figure out. Always right click copy and right click paste, you'll notice it works 100% of the time as it used to.

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Clipboard managers help a lot there.

I just use KDE's default one, Klipper, and I raise the max entry number.

If something bad replaces your copy, you can get the good one back from the history.

There are nice features like QR code generation for your copied text if you want to quickly share something with someone else's phone as well.

That’s a really interesting solution to copy-pasting between devices, which is one of them features Apple has that I rely on a tonne even though it’s horribly unreliable. I wonder if anyone has a similarly clever way to copy from mobile to your computer.

KDE Connect provides some tight integration, including (optional) clipboard sharing, media player controls, features to do presentations, mouse and keyboard.

I use it as a remote control to adjust volume during movies from the phone to the computer playing them for instance.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Copying empty text is a configurable flag in some linux environments, at least, but I'm not sure if that behavior is faithfully preserved in teams / discord / etc as I've never really had it on.

On Linux you can just select the text and simply paste it using middle click. It works everywhere on Xorg, on some environments on Wayland. And it will only copy what you selected... everytime.

I’ve copied with right click out of chatGPT on Firefox and the contents not ending up on my clipboard. Not reliably.

Thats chatgpt doing ott wrapping and breaking web standards in a way chrome accepts but firefox doesnt last i looked

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