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The clipboard is a temporary storage area found on many computing devices

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Is there a key combination to cycle through clipboard history when pasting in windows?

In Visual Studio, I can cycle through my clipboard history by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V rather than CTRL+V. I believe it's called a clipboard ring. But that feature doesn't seem to exist outside of Visual ...
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Excel 2013: "We couldn't free up space on the clipboard. Another program might be using it right now"

Excel 2013 often complains that "We couldn't free up space on the clipboard. Another program might be using it right now" when I'm trying to copy cells. Some say it might be caused by Zone Alarm or ...
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How to copy a picture to clipboard from command line in linux?

I can copy image in Gimp and paste it to OpenOffice document. How to do it (copy or paste image) from command line?
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%paste magic function on ipython3

I'm using ipython3, installed on Ubuntu with apt-get. I can't use the paste magic function, it complains about missing Tkinter. But I do have Tkinter and the same thing works fine on ipython (2). ...
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Clipboard viewer for OS X that allows extracting the data in any available format

I am looking for a clipboard viewer for OS X which will show all formats that the clipboard is holding the data in. (I.e. something similar to the Clipbook viewer in Windows XP.) I found a number of ...
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Where did Windows 10 save clipped images using Windows Key + Shift + S?

When using + Shift + S, the selected area of the screen is copied to the clipboard. Is it saved somewhere also as an image? If so, where can I find it?
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How to send rich text to the clipboard from command line?

How can I send html to the clipboard as rich text from a script? My end goal is create a script so I can paste content from a source file into an email, but I want a general answer for pasting into ...
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Large image to clipboard freezes computer

So I was messing around with some height map images and found this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Srtm_ramp2.world.21600x10800.jpg This image is 21600x10800 when I right ...
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How can I stop JavaScript from modifying the clipboard?

More and more I find that when I copy text from a news site, the site adds in its own advertising/footnote link to my clipboard, so that when I paste, the copied text is appended with something like: ...
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How to prevent text copied from OneNote to be pasted as an image

When copying text from OneNote, it is also made available in the clipboard as an image. (Content is saved in the windows clipboard in various different format types) Some applications use the image ...
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Vim copy/paste messing up indentaton

Whenever I copy something from another application and then go to paste it into vim, it messes up the indentation. For example, just now I tried to copy the manifest.json file from the hello-world ...
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how to keep a "permanent" clip in Ditto

I am using Ditto for quite a while now and it is a great little clipboard manager. A while ago, I have managed to set one of the clips (a copy item in Ditto) as a "permanent" one. Meaning, when I open ...
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How to copy image to clipboard, to paste to another application?

I want to set the clipboard to file abc.jpg, in image format, so I can paste it to gpaint, etc. X11 applications, can I? I have enabled Screen snapshot feature in Compiz windows manager, and I need ...
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Is there a way to make Putty use the standard copy/paste keys

It's ridiculous Putty has always used a non-standard way to copy/paste. Is there a way to use Ctrl-c to copy and Ctrl-v to paste?
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How to strip leading tabs and/or leading spaces when copying data to clipboard?

I need a way to strip leading indents (tabs and spaces) from data copied to clipboard from Notepad++. The data in the Notepad++ document itself should keep having these leading indents and the data ...
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Copy an image to clipboard from the Mac terminal

I have an image, Test.png, which I want to copy to the clipboard from the terminal as part of a Bash script so I can paste it into Word. I've tried using pbcopy like this: $ cat Test.png | pbcopy ...
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How to Send the Contents of a Text File to the Clipboard from the Command Line in OS X?

I would like to send the contents of a text file to the OS X clipboard. Does Mac OS X have a built in way to do this, or will I have write a script to do this myself? Or in other words, how do I ...
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Xming clipboard only works one way

I recently started using Xming to display-back X11 applications from a Linux VM to my Win XP desktop. It's great -- much more useful than the solution I had before, which used VNC -- but the ...
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How to make Windows Snipping Tool always save image instead of putting it in clipboard

I take many screenshots on my Windows 10 laptop. I sometimes use Windows Snipping Tool (WinShiftS which opens the little bar at the top and you can take a snip of the window, whole screen or custom ...
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Is there a way that a tooltip message that appears in the browser can be copied into the clipboard?

This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use CSS, JavaScript, or an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator for what I need. Also, I am looking for something my endusers (non-technical) can use. So ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Firefox to paste the Unix "primary selection" clipboard, not the Firefox one?

I run Linux, and am used to selecting text with the mouse to copy and pressing Shift+Insert to paste. (This uses an alternate clipboard known as the "Primary Selection".) This seems to work in every ...
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How to restart clipboard service on Windows 10?

I have been experiencing problems pasting data as a metafile after a change in the display scaling (DPI settings) of my primary monitor on Windows 10. The only way to fix the problem so far is to log ...
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Use clipboard through WSL?

I'm trying to get WSL to utilize my clipboard so I can update files from the output via xsel -b > my-umatrix-rules.txt. However, I'm getting the following error: xsel: Can't open display: (null) : ...
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How can I copy into the Mac clipboard from vim?

I can paste from vim in one terminal window to vim in another, but not to anything outside vim. I've read numerous posts on the subject, and nothing I've found has helped. Copy/pasting from MacVim ...
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Prevent CopyQ clipboard manager from keeping data from KeePass

I use CopyQ clipboard manager, but I don't want it to keep data from KeePass password manager for security reasons. How can I set up CopyQ for that?
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Windows, disable rich-text copy

On my work PC, when I copy+paste some text between two applications, the rich-text formatting from the first application is preserved when the second receives it. For example, if I am copying from an ...
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Pipe PuTTY context to client clipboard?

Is there a command I can execute like cat <long file> | clipboard From within a PuTTY session (connected to Linux server) to my Windows client? I know I can select an area in the PuTTY client ...
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How do I view the content of the Clipboard in Windows 8?

I'm looking to visually view the contents of my clipboard in Windows 8. From what I've researched the Clipboard viewer program is only installed in Windows XP and below. Is there another way to view ...
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Clipboard Manager for Mac [closed]

Following this question I use ditto on Windows for clipboard management, however I've got a mac-mini for iphone dev and I am missing the clipboard manager. Anyone got any good suggestions for a ...
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How to copy Windows Explorer file selections and paste filenames as text [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Copy filename to clipboard Windows 7: How can I select multiple files in Windows Explorer and get a string of text, listing the file names like I would get if I selected the files ...
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Prevent vim from clearing the clipboard on exit

If I copy text into the xterm clipboard from vim, it is cleared when I exit vim. How do I prevent this?
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How do I share my Ditto clipboard with multiple machines on my network?

I'm using Ditto Clipboard Manager and wish to share the clipboard on multiple machines on my home network. I've heard that you can do this but haven't found any help on it.
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Clipboard content automatically erased

My clipboard gets automatically erased from time to time. For example: I copy some text using Ctrl+C, and then paste it somewhere. And when I try to paste it again, nothing happens. I need to ...
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How can I copy to the system clipboard from byobu?

How can I copy to the x system clipboard from byobu? I know how to copy and paste within byobu (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/byobu.1.html) and I can easily paste from the ...
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How can I prevent shift-delete from cutting in Windows?

I want to prevent Shift-delete from putting the selected stuff to the buffer - it overwrites what I already have in the clipboard, which is a problem, because I always use Ctrl+X for cutting and Shift+...
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Directly paste clipboard image into gmail message

I would like to be able to directly paste my clipboard image into a Gmail message. I could then just do alt-print screen, go to Gmail compose and press ctrl-v to embed a screenshot, for instance. I'm ...
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Compiling vim with xterm_clipboard support

I checked out latest vim7 from cvs repository. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7 I tried: ./configure --enable-xterm_clipboard but I got - WARNING: ...
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What's the quickest way to copy the current date and time to clipboard?

I want to paste the current date and time to a spreadsheet and I am using the NOW() function and copy from there and paste as string but there might be a faster way. There might be an excel solution ...
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How to copy files with window remote desktop?

I can do clipboard copy inside RDS client and then I can do paste on local computer. This will initiate copy process via RDS. Normal copy dialog with flying papers will appear. Is it possible to ...
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Script to kill/restart rdpclip?

We use remote desktop a lot (XP to Server 2003), and people are having trouble with the clipboard randomly not working. After ensuring that all drives were selected for the remote connection, and ...
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How can I share my clipboard between two Macs?

Is there an easy way I could send clipboard data from one Mac on the LAN to another?
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How do we access the second last copied stuff on our clipboard? [duplicate]

How do we access the second last copied stuff on our clipboard? (Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit sp2) I am still interested if the solution is not a straightforward one and requires hacks
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How to check which application has the clipboard hold?

We are deploying some virtual machines with robots software which performs actions in a browser, and we are having trouble with some of them when accessing the clipboard for read or write. They show a ...
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Linux equivalent of clip.exe

I am trying to figure out how to copy the contents of a file to and from the clipboard in Linux (Ubuntu Server 11.10, bash). Is there a linux equvalent of the Windows command clip < filename? If so,...
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Missing environment variables in Windows 7 [duplicate]

When I fresh boot my computer everything is dandy. Then after a few hours applications like Visual Studio, Notepad++, Games, iTunes, Windows components (Cmd prompt, Explorer, etc.), etc. stop working ...
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How do you auto-type the contents of the clipboard from the host into a guest Virtual Box instance?

In the case where clipboard sharing is not possible, because there is just a console and no GUI.
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Copying a textfile from GNOME terminal to clipboard

How to copy an output on a GNOME terminal to clipboard from command line. I'd like to be able to paste text from my console textfiles smoothly to Firefox.
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OS X: Can I paste plain text by default?

This is a version of Windows XP: Can I paste plain text by default for Mac users. This drives me insane as well. Whenever I cut and paste anything from one app to another in OS X it carries ...
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MobaXterm is there a way to disable copy on select?

I am using SSH in MobaXterm, is there a way to prevent automatic "copy" when you select some text (e.g. in gedit), or with the mouse ?
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Is the linux clipboard a file?

We all know the saying: in linux, everything is a file. My question is: how is the clipboard handled in linux? Is it an accessible and definite file? Would it be possible to read it with a cat or to ...
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