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Clipboard has been unstable on every OS (especially on Desktop - and I mean Linux, Windows and Mac), and I think part of the culprit is apps like Teams and Disc

Clipboard has been unstable on every OS (especially on Desktop - and I mean Linux, Windows and Mac), and I think part of the culprit is apps like Teams and Discord, if you Ctrl + C by mistake on an empty text box, IT COPIES THE EMPTY TEXT BOX effectively wiping your clipboard. It's the most irritating UX and it took me years to figure out. Always right click copy and right click paste, you'll notice it works 100% of the time as it used to.

zdragnar 1y ago
Copying empty text is a configurable flag in some linux environments, at least, but I'm not sure if that behavior is faithfully preserved in teams / discord / etc as I've never really had it on.
pacifika 1y ago
I’ve copied with right click out of chatGPT on Firefox and the contents not ending up on my clipboard. Not reliably.
- Xss3 1y ago
  Thats chatgpt doing ott wrapping and breaking web standards in a way chrome accepts but firefox doesnt last i looked
jraph 1y ago
Clipboard managers help a lot there. I just use KDE's default one, Klipper, and I raise the max entry number. If something bad replaces your copy, you can get the good one back from the history. There are nice features like QR code generation for your copied text if you want to quickly share something with someone else's phone as well.
- mcintyre1994 1y ago
  That’s a really interesting solution to copy-pasting between devices, which is one of them features Apple has that I rely on a tonne even though it’s horribly unreliable. I wonder if anyone has a similarly clever way to copy from mobile to your computer.
  - jraph 1y ago
    KDE Connect provides some tight integration, including (optional) clipboard sharing, media player controls, features to do presentations, mouse and keyboard. I use it as a remote control to adjust volume during movies from the phone to the computer playing them for instance. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
inquirerGeneral 1y ago
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spookie 1y ago
On Linux you can just select the text and simply paste it using middle click. It works everywhere on Xorg, on some environments on Wayland. And it will only copy what you selected... everytime.

zdragnar 1y ago

Copying empty text is a configurable flag in some linux environments, at least, but I'm not sure if that behavior is faithfully preserved in teams / discord / etc as I've never really had it on.

pacifika 1y ago

I’ve copied with right click out of chatGPT on Firefox and the contents not ending up on my clipboard. Not reliably.

Xss3 1y ago
Thats chatgpt doing ott wrapping and breaking web standards in a way chrome accepts but firefox doesnt last i looked

jraph 1y ago

Clipboard managers help a lot there. I just use KDE's default one, Klipper, and I raise the max entry number. If something bad replaces your copy, you can get the good one back from the history. There are nice features like QR code generation for your copied text if you want to quickly share something with someone else's phone as well.

mcintyre1994 1y ago
That’s a really interesting solution to copy-pasting between devices, which is one of them features Apple has that I rely on a tonne even though it’s horribly unreliable. I wonder if anyone has a similarly clever way to copy from mobile to your computer.
- jraph 1y ago
  KDE Connect provides some tight integration, including (optional) clipboard sharing, media player controls, features to do presentations, mouse and keyboard. I use it as a remote control to adjust volume during movies from the phone to the computer playing them for instance. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

inquirerGeneral 1y ago

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spookie 1y ago

On Linux you can just select the text and simply paste it using middle click. It works everywhere on Xorg, on some environments on Wayland. And it will only copy what you selected... everytime.