You Should Know @lemmy.world alphacyberranger @lemmy.world 1y ago

YSK: You can press the Windows logo key+V to show up the clipboard history.

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.

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You should really disable clipboard history. A security nightmare.
- 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.
  
  KeePass removes it as fast as you have pasted it.
  
  Visual assist had multiple CTRL C back in the day (still does ofc but MSVC has now too, buttering fingers their functions over other old shortcuts) very neat and pro productivity especially the shortcut to "paste the second to last" IMO.
- 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.
- It’s pretty manageable if you can choose to manually clear it after copying something sensitive.
Ysk: this "windows logo" key is called the Super key or the Meta key
- What I imagine your life is like:
  
  Y: Hey press the meta key.
  
  O: the fucking what mate?
  
  Y: the key with the windows logo on it.
  
  O: you mean the windows key?
  
  Y: You should know, it's called the super key, or the metakey
  
  O: ......
  
  And this is exactly why YSK that!
- It's called the Super key on Linux. On Windows it's called the Windows key and on Mac the Command key.
- Which key? This one?
  
  On my keyboard, it's spelled out win, just like ctrl and alt.
- Okay let's add a SHIFT key for uppercase letters
  
  Ok
  
  CTRL key for special characters
  
  Well why not
  
  ALT for like, whatever?
  
  Wait
  
  CTRL left doesn't do everything ctrl right does
  
  ???
  
  WInDoWs KeY !!!
  
  ...
  
  Hey here is a new FN 'funktion' key! It displaces CTRL but man isn't it exciting.
  
  🤷
  
  What about a screenshot key (displacing the right ctrl)??
  
  🛀
  
  Where I put my hands, there is only function keys.
  
  All these keys. Still 0.5 keys per thumb. WTF.
also work on KDE plasma btw
- Nice. Now I can stop using the little tray icon for that.
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
- get linux for both
  
  I dont control the IT of my work.
- 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.
- 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 Ditto Clipboard, which is better in many ways.
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

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