Cool KDE Plasma trick: [Meta] + [v]
You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?
A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in #KDE 's #Plasma desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] (“Windows”) key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.
tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 7•9 months agoCool! No need for separate clipboard manager (unless you need more advanced features).
Well… the clipboard manager is still necessary 😬 , except you don’t have to go looking for it in the system tray or wherever you put it*.
And you can do everything without lifting your fingers off the keyboard!
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* You can hide it and unclutter the tray! tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agoI use clipman in Xfce and bind a keyboard shortcut to popup the menu (my case Ctrl+alt+k).
Recently I add CB (the clipboard project) to my tools to management clipboard.
Kunal Agrawal ( @kunalagrawal@mastodon.social ) 0•9 months ago tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agoI tried many and settled for Xfce clipman (fit my need, low RAM usage).
And I use KDE clipboard applet in KDE.
Edit: Added KDE counterpart.
Devlight ( @DevlightOfficial@mastodon.ml ) 5•9 months ago Nuuskis ( @Nuuskis@fosstodon.org ) 5•9 months agoI don’t know. So you don’t accidentally paste something you didn’t intend to? No idea. Sounds like a good wishlist thing to post to
I agree that pasting the selected item right away would make the feature even more useful.
tubbadu ( @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ) 2•9 months agoOn wayland this would be pretty difficult to implement (CopyQ for example does this only on X11). I’m currently working on an enhanced version of the klipboard widget, that should trigger a “fake” paste shortcut after the selection
Nuuskis ( @Nuuskis@fosstodon.org ) 2•9 months ago@tubbadu Thanks for the explanation! I had no clue it’d be related to compositor at all.
Riskable ( @riskable@programming.dev ) 1•9 months agoIt’s a configurable option in Klipper (which is the process that’s handling the clipboard in this video). You can access klipper in your system tray and if you right click on it one of the options lets you open up the settings (it’s also somewhere in system settings I think but I always just get there via the system tray icon).
You can also configure how many entries it’ll remember, whether it should pop up at the mouse cursor position, and set up regular expressions to recognize certain types of text (e.g. URLs) to perform specific actions.
Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months agoWhile this is very cool, I would never turn on clipboard history.
Andreas Hontzia ( @honze_net@infosec.exchange ) 3•9 months ago pacjo ( @pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•9 months agoTry this and change shortcut to Meta+V. Doesn’t have the same look and feel as the KDE one (it also pastes on select, but I think this can be turned off)
Ticktok ( @ticktok@fosstodon.org ) 2•9 months ago Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 2•9 months agoToday I Learned. Thank you.
Sozialwelten ( @sozialwelten@ifwo.eu ) 2•9 months ago Mamus ( @mamus@fosstodon.org ) 1•9 months ago MicMun ( @MicMun@mastodon.bayern ) 1•9 months ago Arne Babenhauserheide ( @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ) 1•9 months ago Hirad ( @hirad@m.hirad.it ) 1•9 months ago Canadian Curmudgeon ( @CdnCurmudgeon@mastodon.social ) 1•9 months ago Rodrigo García ( @rgarcia@mstdn.mx ) 1•9 months ago Jae ( @Jae@lemmy.kde.social ) 1•9 months agoThank you! Nice to know. I’m all about making my workflow quick / efficient, and KDE is so great for doing so!