ItsFoss is not only my main source of inspiration for investigating, but also my primary point for searching solutions to basic issues. PS : Great Newsletter / Blog / Web that has taken me to a quite a good level of expertise within 3 years of experimenting Linux, mainly testing everything I read and experiment immediately in your newsletter. Investigating this issue some time ago, I found out there are 2 clipboards in Unix / Linux, but I did not go any further since I did not find any logic, except justifying why it sometimes works and sometimes not… Thanx ! Just realized I could just use “qlipper” that comes with my LXQt environment.ġ/ Why don’t you mention the central mouse button to insert text just selected over the mouse, without even going through the Copy/Paste hassle ?įor me, this is one of the many simple benefits of working Linux instead of WindowsĢ/ Having said that, I understand (or believe ?) this 1/ is a parallel Linux/Unix copy/paste feature, that sometimes matches the Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V, and sometimes not … Jump to: Create shortcut Download shortcut (alternative) Note: If you’ve enabled Windows 10’s new Universal Clipboard feature, then you have to clear clipboard history from the Settings app. What you liked and what you didn’t like? The comment section is all yours. There is no need to find some other data to copy just to clear the previous clipboard entry. If you started using CopyQ after reading this article, do share your experience with it. Do you use or know of some other similar clipboard tool? Why not let us know in the comments? For me, it’s one of the essential productivity tools on Linux.Īs I mentioned at the beginning of the article, there are several clipboard managers available for Linux. The logical option would be 'Win+Insert' (as 'ctrl+insert is regular paste), but it doesn't seem to work. I find it surprising that many people are not even aware of an essential utility like clipboard manager. The clipboard history is a very nice feature, but I cannot seem to find the left handed keyboard shortcut for it.
#Clipboard history shortcut how to#
You may also want to know how to remove PPA later. For example, at the time of writing this article, CopyQ version in Ubuntu 20.04 is 3.10 while PPA has newer version 3.11. Type pbcopy < /dev/null in Terminal, and press Return key. Go to Finder -> Applications -> Terminal. Since Clipboard history is stored in computer system RAM, restarting computer will clear everything and release the used RAM.
Ubuntu users also have the option to use the official PPA and always get the latest stable CopyQ version. Restart your Mac computer to clear Clipboard.
#Clipboard history shortcut install#
Alternatively, you can use the apt command to install it: sudo apt install copyq
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