Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation
riskable@programming.dev 4 days ago
Just use KDE and you get klipper which is an amazing clipboard manager. It keeps track of everything you’ve copied to your clipboard (raise the history to 999).
Configure it to pop up at the cursor location and whenever you type the keystroke you’ll have access to everything.
I personally prefer that it not paste immediately upon selection but there’s a number of options like that to set it up to your liking.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days ago
Gonna stop you right there 🙂
Does it sync the select/middle-click clipboard with the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V clipboard? I do like having both, especially since some tools will only be able to conveniently interact with one or another, it just drives me nuts that they are separate entities. Having a clipboard manager with history is a neat thing but not as essential to me as just having the nuts and bolts working.
I can literally provide you a simple example: Go to emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face, click “copy”, and then come back and middle click in the reply. Do you get a smiling emoji? If you select some text in the reply and then hit Ctrl-V, do you then get the text you highlighted?