Why YSK: Suppose, you want to copy multiple parts of texts from different documents to a single document. You can copy all of them and paste one by one by bringing up the clipboard history. This is one of the many useful cases of a clipboard history.
Here’s how to do it:
Step 1: From the Windows Start menu, go to “Settings” and then “System”. Go to the gear icon for “Settings” in the Windows Start menu and directly after that go to “System”.
Step 2: Click “Clipboard” in the left sidebar and set the toggle at “Clipboard history” to “On”.
This works in only Windows 10 and 11.
I use CopyQ (persistent history across boots, larger history size and more) and have re-assigned the Win+V key to it. Saves a shit ton of my time.
Does it sometimes not copy? Windows has been doing this for years now.
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Man, it’s really annoying switching from Mac to windows frequently.
I use windows at home and Mac at work.
Cmd c/v vs ctrl c/v
macOS has a pretty nice built in keyboard rebind for keys like cmd.
The copy shortcut is so much better on Mac but man decades of reinforced learning is hard to remove :-)
Also on PC it seems the new idea is to add more and more control type keys in that area :-(
get linux for both
I dont control the IT of my work.
I use a keyboard remapper to change the key next to space (windows maybe? Not at my desk) to control. So acts like cmnd. You could do the same in reverse on mac instead. I also recommend changing right opt on mac to forward delete. Gamechanger, that one.
When I was in college, they had mostly Macs on campus. Whenever I used one, the very first thing I would do is go into the Control Panels and rebind the Ctrl key to actually activate Ctrl, and the middle click to actually middle click (instead of opening the stupid worthless dashboard).
By the time I graduated, every damn Mac in that building had its keys remapped to perform the proper functions.
You can enable it from the window that opens by pressing windows key + V. You don’t have to do it in settings.
also work on KDE plasma btw
Nice. Now I can stop using the little tray icon for that.
Neat
I use Ditto Clipboard, which is better in many ways.
You should really disable clipboard history. A security nightmare.
This is the way. You can turn it back on if you really need to use it for something, but it should default to off. If you have it off and press win + v there is a button to turn it on right in the popup. I just wish they added an off button there, too You have to go into settings to turn it back off.
Number one reason I don’t want that. If I C&P a password, the first thing I do is copy whatever else to remove it.
KeePass removes it as fast as you have pasted it.
Visual assist had multiple CTRL C back in the day (still does ofc but MSVC has now too, buttering fingers their functions over other old shortcuts) very neat and pro productivity especially the shortcut to “paste the second to last” IMO.
KeePass has password in limbo for 10 seconds instead of 11? Do they really not store (for c&p) passwords saver than clipboard? I only do that with irrelevant things, like for my lemmy account or what not. I assume that they have a much better solution.
All passwords that are actually relevant (email, Firefox, bank, …) are memorized.
You can use keepass in multiple ways where the password never touches the clipboard. I usually use it with a Firefox extension that fills in the fields. You can also have it swap back to your last window and autotype (not sure exactly what the mechanism is).
If you do copy, it clears it from the clipboard history ~10s after copying. I’m pretty sure that’s configurable.
KeePassXC has an autotype shortcut of Crtl+Shift+V which is good when dealing with remote systems
It’s pretty manageable if you can choose to manually clear it after copying something sensitive.
Ysk: this “windows logo” key is called the Super key or the Meta key
Which key? This one?
On my keyboard, it’s spelled out win, just like ctrl and alt.
Okay let’s add a SHIFT key for uppercase letters
Ok
CTRL key for special characters
Well why not
ALT for like, whatever?
Wait
CTRL left doesn’t do everything ctrl right does
???
WInDoWs KeY !!!
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Hey here is a new FN ‘funktion’ key! It displaces CTRL but man isn’t it exciting.
🤷
What about a screenshot key (displacing the right ctrl)??
🛀
Where I put my hands, there is only function keys.
What I imagine your life is like:
Y: Hey press the meta key.
O: the fucking what mate?
Y: the key with the windows logo on it.
O: you mean the windows key?
Y: You should know, it’s called the super key, or the metakey
O: …
And this is exactly why YSK that!
Bruh, try to have at least some social awareness. Nobody wants to be around a “well achually…” person.
Lemmy users try not to correct you challenge (impossible)
It’s called the Super key on Linux. On Windows it’s called the Windows key and on Mac the Command key.
