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To all of you who stopped worrying thanks to a clipboard manager, how do you handle sensitive contents in your clipboard? For example, I routinely copy-paste my passwords from KeePass, and I have disabled all clipboard management to avoid copies of my passwords lingering around.
To all of you who stopped worrying thanks to a clipboard manager, how do you handle sensitive contents in your clipboard? For example, I routinely copy-paste my passwords from KeePass, and I have disabled all clipboard management to avoid copies of my passwords lingering around.
At least on MacOS "sensitive" contents copied to clipboard by apps can be marked as such, and won't be persisted by my clipboard manager.
Under X, the clipboard is especially heavy: you have two ways to copy and paste (Ctrl+c/v versus selection and middle mouse button), and Ctrl+v doesn't work in terminals. It's confusing.
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If usually delete to another register to avoid that, "dd for example :)
Doesn’t dd delete the line under the cursor?
I stopped worrying about it when I installed the Ditto clipboard Manager[0]. It keeps everything, so don't have to keep track of what I copied in my short term memory. I offloaded that task to the computer. Turns out they're good at that kind of thing. I wrote about it back in 2016 on my very ugly website: https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2016/02/clipboard-manager/ [0] https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
It was super easy to customise and once I'd setup shortcuts for everything, never needed to open the app window in 2+yrs
One of the key things I can't go without now in my workflow is a clipboard manager.
I use Rofi (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) in combination with Greenclip (https://github.com/erebe/greenclip) and it's a Godsend.
I have a custom keybinding (super key + c) that will bring up the Rofi menu to fuzzy search through previously copied items or pinned items. Super handy when writing code, finding old snippets, etc.
Can't recommend it enough.
Under X, the clipboard is especially heavy: you have two ways to copy and paste (Ctrl+c/v versus selection and middle mouse button), and Ctrl+v doesn't work in terminals. It's confusing.
Any good terminal emulator offers a way to Ctrl+v, e.g. in Konsole I paste by Ctrl+Shift+v. You could remap it to Ctrl+v if you so prefer.
Not to me, because in the software I use the thing gets actually deleted once I paste it somewhere else, not before. It's more like tagging the thing(s) for moving to a location to be disclosed later.
To all of you who stopped worrying thanks to a clipboard manager, how do you handle sensitive contents in your clipboard? For example, I routinely copy-paste my passwords from KeePass, and I have disabled all clipboard management to avoid copies of my passwords lingering around.