Edit: Everything seems too complicated, so I just went with this https://odysee.com/simplescreenrecorder-2023-09-03_11.02.17:a When you try to copy something, you copy something and then you paste it. This is fine, but I wish there was an app which would help me copy multiple items at different times and seamlessly help me paste it.
i.e., copy two things, press ctrl + v to paste the last thing you copied and press ctrl + shift + v to paste the last second thing you copied and so on.
I am pretty sure there are better ways to do this than what I am asking. So, I would be interested in those ways too.
you can’t only install kclipper that’s the app?
There are tons of clipboard managers for Linux. I used clipit and copyq but there are more.
Funny story: some desktop support guy came to do something on my laptop. He opened some remote file, copied admins password, pasted it into login prompt, did his things, selected some random texts and pressed ctrl+c couple of times. I asked him if that was to clear the password and he says that yes. I’m like… look here, and I clicked in my clipboard manager icon and the password is there in the history. LoL.
I’ve been using GPaste as my clipboard manager for a while. It can save multiple items in the clipboard and you can switch between which items you want to paste.
It doesn’t have a keybinding for the “last second thing”, but if you are OK with using your mouse to switch to another item, it would work for what you are asking.
sorry, but I need them keybindings. I am using clipman and that does the necessary too.
There are 2 clipboards:Ctrl+C/V and select text + middle mouse.
The latter only has one spot but can be used together with the “traditional” one by first copying using ctrl+c then just selecting the other bit of text.
Emacs handles this with a “kill ring”. The first time you paste (yank) with C-y, it’ll paste the last thing you cut/copied. Then you can repeatedly press M-y (M == meta == alt key) to cycle through previous items in that were cut/copied.
If you use Gnome, this is pretty handy: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator/
I use Pano. Very handy little thing.
Yep, pano is awesome, but first you need to spend a little time configuring it.
If your clipboard manager/history can be accessed with a script, you might use espanso to create some handy shortcuts, such as
:paste3, or I think you can even pass a variable, like:paste/3/.I use Diodon. I’ve set it up so that copy is CTRL+C, Paste is still CTRL+V, but what I call “Super Paste” is SUPER+V, showing a list of the last 20 items that were copied, including images.
Great utility, especially paired with FlameShot.
The only thing is that the Super Paste always pastes unformatted. Not a big deal, but something to consider.
That sounds like a security risk
