Win-V combo from Windows on Ubuntu

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13 points | by havaianaslife 6 days ago

10 comments

  • boredishBoi 2 hours ago
    KDE ships klipper by default which is the same thing and works fantastically. Supports multimedia and is fast, I only wish it had a cli tool instead of having to use xclip or qdbus. On windows I find ditto much more performant than the native clipboard manager.
    • dundarious 1 hour ago
      I use sway so just made a bash script that's a couple of lines to join cliphist, tofi, wl-copy, wtype, together to the same effect.
    • TheAceOfHearts 1 hour ago
      Holy crap I've been using KDE for years and I didn't know about Meta+V.

      I'll pay it forward by sharing another shortcut: Meta+. for emoji picker.

      • isaacdl 31 minutes ago
        Windows (or at least, recent Windows 11) has that too!
  • masfuerte 1 hour ago
    The emoji and symbol picker on Windows 10 has type-to-search for emojis but not for symbols. It's such an annoying restriction. It's quicker to find and copy symbols from the web than trying to find them in the picker.

    I don't know if Windows 11 is the same, but I hope this software hasn't copied it if it is.

  • _def 1 hour ago
    Specifically for GNOME there are numerous extensions where at least one of them can be assigned hotkeys for: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicat...
  • blfr 2 hours ago
    I didn't even know super+v on Windows. Not to sound all entitled about opensource software but can we get a screenshot on GNOME? Maybe on both?
  • ta8903 44 minutes ago
    Gnome already has a clipboard manager (maybe it's https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicat..., but can't be sure if that's what I'm using since I'm not at home) which can be bound to super+v.

    It's better than the Windows equivalent because

    1. It loads instantly rather than taking 2-3 seconds like the Windows version, which is super annoying

    2. It retains the clipboard history across reboots, unlike the Windows version

    3. It doesn't have a limit to the number of pastes saved, unlike Windows which has a limit of I think 10, so you can find entries from weeks ago

    4. It's searchable

    5. There's an incognito mode for when you need to copy and paste a bunch of things which you won't need later, or when you're copying sensitive information

    Big fan, one of those things that are such a UX improvement that make using Windows feel like a hassle.

  • azeemba 1 hour ago
    What do people use on mac? The clipboard manager inside spotlight feels cumbersome to use
  • running101 1 hour ago
    how is the power management on linux working for a daily driver? It has always been a pain point ?
    • ta8903 26 minutes ago
      It's fine? Might be worse than Windows, but unless you spend long times away from a charger, it doesn't really matter, does it?

      To answer your question, I might probably get around 5-6 hours of video playback (local files, not streamed) on my generic cheap x86 machine from 3 years ago from full to empty, but I don't have the windows equivalent numbers, and I limit charging at 80% and charge at 40% anyway so I don't actually go through a full charge cycle.

  • senectus1 1 hour ago
    is this caching of copied data encrypted at all?
    • accrual 59 minutes ago
      Yeah, I do wonder how this works for those copying keys and other private strings around. I'd rather they disappear on the next ^c than be pushed into an array somewhere, or worse, stored on disk.