Why YSK: Suppose, you want to copy multiple parts of texts from different documents to a single document. You can copy all of them and paste one by one by bringing up the clipboard history. This is one of the many useful cases of a clipboard history.
Here’s how to do it:
Step 1: From the Windows Start menu, go to “Settings” and then “System”. Go to the gear icon for “Settings” in the Windows Start menu and directly after that go to “System”.
Step 2: Click “Clipboard” in the left sidebar and set the toggle at “Clipboard history” to “On”.
This works in only Windows 10 and 11.
You should really disable clipboard history. A security nightmare.
This is the way. You can turn it back on if you really need to use it for something, but it should default to off. If you have it off and press win + v there is a button to turn it on right in the popup. I just wish they added an off button there, too You have to go into settings to turn it back off.
Number one reason I don’t want that. If I C&P a password, the first thing I do is copy whatever else to remove it.
It’s pretty manageable if you can choose to manually clear it after copying something sensitive.
also work on KDE plasma btw
Nice. Now I can stop using the little tray icon for that.
I use Ditto Clipboard, which is better in many ways.
Man, it’s really annoying switching from Mac to windows frequently.
I use windows at home and Mac at work.
Cmd c/v vs ctrl c/v
When I was in college, they had mostly Macs on campus. Whenever I used one, the very first thing I would do is go into the Control Panels and rebind the Ctrl key to actually activate Ctrl, and the middle click to actually middle click (instead of opening the stupid worthless dashboard).
By the time I graduated, every damn Mac in that building had its keys remapped to perform the proper functions.
macOS has a pretty nice built in keyboard rebind for keys like cmd.
get linux for both
The copy shortcut is so much better on Mac but man decades of reinforced learning is hard to remove :-)
Also on PC it seems the new idea is to add more and more control type keys in that area :-(
I use CopyQ (persistent history across boots, larger history size and more) and have re-assigned the Win+V key to it. Saves a shit ton of my time.
Does it sometimes not copy? Windows has been doing this for years now.
Neat
Ysk: this “windows logo” key is called the Super key or the Meta key
