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TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards (lemdro.id)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don't: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Is it possible to have have a Windows 10-like clipboard in Mint? Where you can copy multiple stuff with ctrl+c and then press super+v to have a dropdown of things that you copied with a possiblity to pin some of them?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

https://gitlab.com/doertydoerk/clipman https://github.com/diodon-dev/diodon https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ

And probably more. Anything than can be done in Windows was available in Linux 10 years earlier.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Klipper on KDE offers a clipboard history. Don't know about other DEs.

[–] 6xpipe_ 13 points 8 months ago

What your talking about is called a clipboard manager, and there are tons of them out there. All with varying features.

[–] demonsword 3 points 8 months ago

qlipper is the one I use the most