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Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

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79 points timeoperator | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bornfreddy ◴[22 Aug 25 17:24 UTC] No.44987189[source]▶
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?

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ASalazarMX ◴[22 Aug 25 17:37 UTC] No.44987326[source]▶
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?

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pluc ◴[22 Aug 25 20:39 UTC] No.44989530[source]▶
Use a password manager/passkey so you don't have to do this
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magackame ◴[22 Aug 25 22:03 UTC] No.44990404{3}[source]▶
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).
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1. pluc ◴[22 Aug 25 22:31 UTC] No.44990705{4}[source]▶
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