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*The* Paul Brown

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 's 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.

@kde

Oct 08, 2023, 08:20 AM·Public
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tun

Cool! No need for separate clipboard manager (unless you need more advanced features).

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Kunal Agrawal

@tun @Bro666 i hate the fact that we can't edit items while in this mode and can't preview images.

CopyQ allows so much more.

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tun

I tried many and settled for Xfce clipman (fit my need, low RAM usage).

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*The* Paul Brown

@tun

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!

Screebshot of the #KDE's Plasma desktop configuration window for the system tray, showing the options available for showing or hiding the clipboard.
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tun

I 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.

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Ticktok

@Bro666 @kde oh sweet. thanks for sharing. That is super useful!

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Hirad

@Bro666
One of my favorite features. I use it all the time.
@kde

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Canadian Curmudgeon

@Bro666 @kde
Yes, but as I recall, you need to turn the history feature on first using Win-v, otherwise only the last item remains in memory.

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Sina

While this is very cool, I would never turn on clipboard history.

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PureTryOut

@Bro666 @kde Eh, that shortcut does nothing for me and I don't see any relevant (unassigned) shortcut in system settings. With Plasma 5.27.8, what am I missing?

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*The* Paul Brown

@bart @kde

Maybe check the clipboard's settings?

Right click on the clipboard icon in your system tray, select "Configure Clipboard..." and check the "Shortcuts" tab (see screenshot).

Screenshot showing the "Shortcuts" tab in the "Clipboard Configuration" window.
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PureTryOut

@Bro666 @kde Ah there you go, it was unassigned. I've set it to the default now and it works great, that makes the clipboard so much more useful! Previously I was manually moving my mouse to click on the tray icon, it was quite inefficient.

Thanks!

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*The* Paul Brown

@bart @kde

It is one of those Plasma things, isn't it? So much stuff can be configured and tweaked that it is often hard to find where it is you can do the configuring.

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PureTryOut

@Bro666 @kde Definitely. In this case I expected it in the shortcuts KCM in system settings but it's just not there. It probably should be though.

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*The* Paul Brown

@bart @kde

It's a bit of a tough call. The "standard" clipboard is a widget, it does seem to be an integral part of Plasma, but the limits between what is Plasma and what is not are a bit hazy.

My guess is that, back in the day, the clipboard was an "independent" widget and this is a leftover from that.

But, you are right: the configure option for the notifications widget opens Plasma Settings, as does the network widget. It does not make much sense that the clipboard be different.

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Arne Babenhauserheide

@Bro666 that’s like Meta-y in Emacs with the right mode (browse the kill ring) — very cool! @kde

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Sozialwelten

@Bro666 Thank you. I am actually using this feature right now. I had no idea that this exists :)

@kde

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Jae

Thank you! Nice to know. I’m all about making my workflow quick / efficient, and KDE is so great for doing so!

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