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Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
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How do I fill the Ditto-shaped hole in my heart when I'm on a linux computer ? #511

Open shodanx2 opened 1 year ago

shodanx2 commented 1 year ago

I know linux clipboard has "its quirks" to begin with.

Similar to how drag and drop, is "not great"

I found this post on superuser

https://superuser.com/questions/42991/clipboard-manager-for-ubuntu

Of course a superuser mouth breathing moderator labelled it as "off topic", those people have no idea what being a super user even is

Before it got closed these suggestions were floated

Glipper Parcelite ClipIt Diodon CopyQ ClipIt anamnesis Keepboard

I don't think the 8 of them combine have as many features as Ditto has on its own.

I guess I'll have to give them a try, but if not, I think it's going to be wine/proton time

arunkumaraqm commented 1 year ago

CopyQ has many features and I've been using it for many years but (anecdotal instance) it is quite slow for me nowadays.

RogueScholar commented 1 year ago

CopyQ has many features and I've been using it for many years but (anecdotal instance) it is quite slow for me nowadays.

CopyQ would be my recommendation as well, in addition to being my current solution to managing the clipboard in my various Kubuntu instances. I've also experienced the sluggishness with it recently, but have opted to wait for the Plasma migration to Qt6 to run its course in February first before opening a bug report with the developer. I imagine they, too, will be porting their codebase over to Qt6 and that may resolve the issue by itself or at least provide the opportunity for a bit of code review and optimization.

I'd also add that while far from featureful, without question the most performant and reliable clipboard manager for Linux that I've yet found has been the one built right in to the KDE Plasma desktop environment: Klipper. It catches everything whether I'm using the mouse to clip things via context menu, just selecting them and using the middle mouse button, using Ctrl+Shift+C/V or Shift+Ins/Del, sharing the clipboard of a virtual machine, you name it! The combination of Klipper and CopyQ keep me pretty well-satisfied on Linux, but I'll concede that it still falls short of a 1:1, drop-in replacement for Ditto. In the end I accept it as belonging to the same ontological class as Adobe software and MusicBee: use cases where Windows offers advantages over Linux. They're not plentiful, thankfully, but they are out there.

@arunkumaraqm: Do you install CopyQ from your distribution's package repository or from the developer's PPA on Launchpad. I use the Launchpad package and now I'm wondering if it may be the locus of the issue as I've noticed it's built differently than the ones from Debian/Ubuntu.