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Nah man, clipboard on Linux, mainly KDE, is really good. KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good

Nah man, clipboard on Linux, mainly KDE, is really good. KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows. Selecting text and middle clicking is so much faster than ctrl+c, ctrl+v. Having the two separate, allows you to essentially copy two separate things at once, and paste them separately, which is great for filling out forms. Also, KDE provides an absolute gem of a clipboard manager, which stores all recent copies in to a list, from which entries can be browsed in order to recopy some text that you may have copied a while ago. IDK where you got the idea that Gnome apps have a different clipboard, as I have never experienced that. Maybe that is an old thing? Definitely not how it is now, thats for sure. Copy/paste works on files / file-managers, images, text and HTML. This is not a Windows only experience. In fact, the clipboard manager even has little file icons, and image previews, for copied objects.

SrZorro 4y ago
> Also, KDE provides an absolute gem of a clipboard manager, which stores all recent copies in to a list In windows 10 and up, win + v to see (and the first time, enable) the clipboard history selector
- BenjiWiebe 4y ago
  Yes I love this Windows 10 feature. Note that KDE has had it pre Windows 10 though.
eqvinox 4y ago
> KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows. Just for completeness & correctness: that's an X11 feature, not related to KDE, and predates KDE by several years. I can't easily find the history of it, but this Keith Packard paper[0] on it is dated 1990 so it's necessarily older than that… [0] http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps (pg. 5, "4.1. Selection names" - PRIMARY, SECONDARY, CLIPBOARD. I don't think SECONDARY is used much these days.)

SrZorro 4y ago

> Also, KDE provides an absolute gem of a clipboard manager, which stores all recent copies in to a list In windows 10 and up, win + v to see (and the first time, enable) the clipboard history selector

BenjiWiebe 4y ago
Yes I love this Windows 10 feature. Note that KDE has had it pre Windows 10 though.

eqvinox 4y ago

> KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows. Just for completeness & correctness: that's an X11 feature, not related to KDE, and predates KDE by several years. I can't easily find the history of it, but this Keith Packard paper[0] on it is dated 1990 so it's necessarily older than that… [0] http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/selection.ps (pg. 5, "4.1. Selection names" - PRIMARY, SECONDARY, CLIPBOARD. I don't think SECONDARY is used much these days.)