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Why YSK: Suppose, you want to copy multiple parts of texts from different documents to a single document. You can copy all of them and paste one by one by bringing up the clipboard history. This is one of the many useful cases of a clipboard history.

Here's how to do it:

Step 1: From the Windows Start menu, go to "Settings" and then "System". Go to the gear icon for "Settings" in the Windows Start menu and directly after that go to "System".

Step 2: Click "Clipboard" in the left sidebar and set the toggle at "Clipboard history" to "On".

This works in only Windows 10 and 11.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Number one reason I don't want that. If I C&P a password, the first thing I do is copy whatever else to remove it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

KeePass removes it as fast as you have pasted it.

Visual assist had multiple CTRL C back in the day (still does ofc but MSVC has now too, buttering fingers their functions over other old shortcuts) very neat and pro productivity especially the shortcut to "paste the second to last" IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

KeePass has password in limbo for 10 seconds instead of 11? Do they really not store (for c&p) passwords saver than clipboard? I only do that with irrelevant things, like for my lemmy account or what not. I assume that they have a much better solution.

All passwords that are actually relevant (email, Firefox, bank, ...) are memorized.

[–] joby 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use keepass in multiple ways where the password never touches the clipboard. I usually use it with a Firefox extension that fills in the fields. You can also have it swap back to your last window and autotype (not sure exactly what the mechanism is).

If you do copy, it clears it from the clipboard history ~10s after copying. I'm pretty sure that's configurable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KeePassXC has an autotype shortcut of Crtl+Shift+V which is good when dealing with remote systems