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Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by garciansmith »

bornfreddy wrote: post #9

One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?

KDE's default clipboard manager lets you summon a list (and you can change what shortcut to invoke it and do things like use a shortcut to move to the next clipboard entry) and edit entries. It doesn't let you pin them though, I think.

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by pluc »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #14
bornfreddy wrote: post #9

One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?

Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates. How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?

Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by hkon »

bornfreddy wrote: post #9

One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?

I love that feature too. I replicated it with this. https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist

In addition to what is shown here, I added a job that runs every 5 minutes which prunes the history so that I can comfortably copy sensitive information as well.

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by bornfreddy »

Gracana wrote: post #22
ASalazarMX wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates. How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?

I looked at mine, and it only has entries from my current login session.

That, and it only has about 10 of them. But anyway, if someone can access your clipboard manager then that's not very good...

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by Yasuraka »

bornfreddy wrote: post #9

One thing that I love about Windows (and there aren't many others) is that pressing Super+V (instead of Ctrl+V) shows a list of last N clipboard entries and you can select which one you wish to paste. Simple and very effective. You can also pin some entries so that they are permanently available, but that's a bonus. I haven't seen a clipboard manager behave like that in Linux - can this one be used in a similar way?

https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history

Can show last N entries and has a search bar as well, so you can click type away and cycle through results with TAB. Supports pinning as well.

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by magackame »

pluc wrote: post #32
ASalazarMX wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried it, and found out I had disabled it in the past, and it fortunately has stayed off trhough updates. How does it deal with usernames/passwords/secrets in the clipboard? Do you clean it up periodically?

Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this

Sometimes you have broken websites/apps so you gotta copypaste. Sometimes they even have fields where you can't paste either (K9mail on android) (I cry in 64 char password).

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by pluc »

magackame wrote: post #36
pluc wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this

Sometimes you have broken websites/apps so you gotta copypaste. Sometimes they even have fields where you can't paste either (K9mail on android) (I cry in 64 char password).

It'd be an interesting feature for a password manager to issue a system call to purge clipboard history on copying a password. Lots of password managers aren't just browser add-ons but full desktop apps

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by zahlman »

hungmung wrote: post #5

Linux clipboards have been a pain point to me for decades. What I really want is a single unified clipboard daemon that works across different login sessions and covers console and graphical environments with the same keyboard shortcut. Bonus points if it's got a single-use-paste option for passwords, and also buffers to hold onto multiple selections.

> a single-use-paste option for passwords

This wouldn't prevent the malware that's constantly scanning the clipboard from stealing your password; it would only prevent you from using it after it's been stolen.

Re: Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

zahlman wrote: post #39
hungmung wrote: post #5

Linux clipboards have been a pain point to me for decades. What I really want is a single unified clipboard daemon that works across different login sessions and covers console and graphical environments with the same keyboard shortcut. Bonus points if it's got a single-use-paste option for passwords, and also buffers to hold onto multiple selections.

> a single-use-paste option for passwords This wouldn't prevent the malware that's constantly scanning the clipboard from stealing your password; it would only prevent you from using it after it's been stolen.

I would think that would at least have the advantage of making it easier to detect the problem?
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