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WinCompose is one of a handful of utilities that's made using Windows virtually painless as someone who's used to using Linux as a daily driver. (other such ut
by amyjess 5y ago
WinCompose is one of a handful of utilities that's made using Windows virtually painless as someone who's used to using Linux as a daily driver.
(other such utilities include Chocolatey, MobaXterm, Greenshot, WSL in general for common CLI tools, and some KDE apps but especially Kate and Okular)
- MiddleEndian 5y agoAlso worth checking out is Ditto, clipboard history manager. Much snappier and lighter than the built-in one they eventually put into Windows. Nearly identical to KDE's Klipper, CTRL ` and your searchable clipboard history appears next to your cursor.
- nickjj 5y ago> Much snappier and lighter than the built-in one they eventually put into Windows Ditto also supports searching through your clipboard history. Been using Ditto for years.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoIt's really a killer utility. I find it to be slightly better than KDE's Klipper and much better than Butler as a clipboard in OS X (although it's been many years since I've used Butler)
- leokennis 5y agoLove that app. The built in one does not show tons of stuff you can copy to your clipboard. I work in IT and people are baffled when I copy a few things, paste them one by one, then search for a thing I copied a week ago…I feel naked without Ditto.
- vort3 5y agoThere was a software called 3dclip, which is essentially Ditto, but much more lightweight. I think it uses native windows elements and written without use of big libraries. Unfortunately it's discontinued and website isn't available anymore, but I have installer for anyone who is interested (it's not modified or anything). It doesn't have history search, but if all you want is a multiclipboard, it does that, and some other useful things as well. I use it for many years and happy with it. Tried Ditto but it's too big and slow for my taste. UPD: I was wrong, site is still up. https://www.3dclipboard.com/ https://www.3dclipboard.com/
- francislavoie 5y agoI prefer Scoop over Chocolatey https://scoop.sh/ https://scoop.sh/ Also Windows Terminal is really great https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk... I also prefer ShareX for screenshots https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
- pitaj 5y agoI just use the built-in screen snip. You can configure it to activate on press of the "print screen" key.
- francislavoie 5y agoI like to be able to records gifs/mp4s quickly as well, for reporting some issue with an animation on a website or whatever. On Linux I like to use Peek for that, and I use the built-in Screenshot tool otherwise on Ubuntu.
- 0XAFFE 5y agoOn windows you can use win+g which allows you to record videos of the current window. I think it’s for games but it works for everything else pretty well.
- cpmsmith 5y agoIt's also bound to Windows-Shift-S by default, as of 2018
- keithnz 5y agofor screen shots, I mucked around with a bunch and ended up using lightshot https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html and a tool called GifCam to take animated Gif screenshots.
- JoBrad 5y agoSecond scoop: it’s smart use of symlinks and no need for admin is exactly what Windows CLI needs.
- leokennis 5y agoA nice alternative for MobaXterm is Royal TS, especially for maintaining a list of 100’s of servers and simultaneously executing commands on a subset or all of them: https://royalapps.com/ts/win/features https://royalapps.com/ts/win/features
- lproven 5y agoHave a look at Taekwindow as well, then. Provides the missing but to me vital functionality of "middle click the title bar to send to the back of the stack".