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

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Is it possible to switch between items copied in the clipboard?

I'm using Clipboard Indicator listed here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator/ This allows me to keep multiple items in the clipboard and select or use them without having ...
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VirtualBox 7.0 Win10Pro <-> Win10Pro . Clipboard stopped working

I have installed VirtualBox 7.0 with extensions on a Win10 pro machine and run a VM with also Win 10 pro in the VM. The bidirectional clipboard has worked and now does not work anymore. The (actual) ...
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Bash: Best Practices for Moving a File from Clipboard?

I'm trying to move a file from the clipboard using this script: #!/bin/bash # Get the file path from the clipboard file=$(xclip -selection clipboard -o) # Move the file mv "$file" "/...
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How to modify pinned clipboard items outside the clipboard popup? [duplicate]

By default, when you copy a text (for example called x), then copy another text (called y) to the Windows clipboard, the second item (y) replaces the first item (x). So better to say, only one item at ...
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Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying

Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying a selection: I don't know why it happens. I use murgee maybe it causes this problem?
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xfce-terminal: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes, but can't copy

Suddenly, out of the blue, my xfce4-terminal refuses to copy to the clipboard. I can paste to the terminal from the menu or with Ctrl-Shift-V, but selecting something from the terminal and then trying ...
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Where is the file that contains pinned items in Windows 10 clipboard?

I copied and pinned someting that messed up my clipboard, now when I open it, the cursor when I hover over it keeps spinning, and the panel is transparent. When I turn off clipboard history, the panel ...
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How to enable copy/paste on a VM-Ware virtual Windows machine?

I've just created a virtual Windows-10 machine, but the virtual machine settings don't mention any isolation-related entries, so what can I do in order to enable copy/paste on that virtual machine? ...
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Couldn't copy paste text from local computer(win 11) to AVD through Remote Desktop App

I couldn't copy paste text from local computer(windows 11) to AVD (Azure virtual Desktop) through Remote Desktop App. Copy paste works in both AVD & local computer, if i use RD web client. All ...
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Auto Copy Selected Text to Clipboard [closed]

I would ask for a script that copies selected text to the clipboard of windows touch screen to use with the dictionary app. I found scripts that will auto copy the selected text to the Window ...
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Copy to clipboard in RHEL remote server on Windows Terminal / WSL?

Not sure if mine is a weird/unusual workflow, but I have a Windows machine, where I use Windows Terminal. I usually ssh into a remote server, using WSL on Windows Terminal. The remote server is ...
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vba TRUE or FALSE text from Clipboard recognised as boolean by Excel

I have table with one of the column (let say column Code) has text TRUE in it. But, when I copy it to excel, the data become boolen so my vlookup (that search text TRUE from column code) become an ...
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Why can't clipboard content from Mail be pasted if closing Mail?

Fairly simple problem but pretty annoying, say I receive some key by email to paste in a software to unlock it. If I copy the key from the email then close Mail immediately, and try to paste, it doesn'...
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how to restore the windows clipboard after deleting it

I found a rare link on Google on how to remove the WIN+V Windows Clipboard, but now I cannot find that same link that also had instructions on how to restore it back. At the time of removal, I ...
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After yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-lt on guest CentOS on VirtualBox in Windows 10 the clipboard no longer works

What actually can break the work of bidirectional clipboard exchange from guest CentOS 7 to Windows 10 on VirtualBox 5.1 after I execute in guest machine sudo yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-...
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tmux 2.6: why does copying mouse-selected text to macOS clipboard work in iTerm but not in Warp and VS Code?

Server I have tmux running on a remote server with the following environment: DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS" tmux 2.6 This is my .tmux.conf file: # Some tweaks to the status line ...
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Double-clicking Ditto clipboard manager clip doesn't always paste it in active window (Solved – Wait 2 seconds)

If you double-click a Ditto clipboard manager clip, it should paste it into the currently active window. Sometimes, I would notice that it would activate and paste it to the wrong window.
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Is there any way to stop the Windows 10 Clipboard Manager from automatically pasting selected items?

If I select an item from the Clipboard Manager history, then I'd like that item to be placed on the clipboard, but not subsequently automatically pasted into the document / edit field. Is this ...
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Windows - Is there a way to quickly copy the content of a file (always the same file) to clipboard

I'm working in a limited enterprise environement. I do stuff in ssh through Putty (cannot use any other terminal) and in my linux environment, when I do a vim yank or a tmux yank I added the behaviour ...
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How can I combine two xclip commands?

Copy string into clipboard: echo "hello world" | xclip -sel clip Copy string used by middle-click mouse button. echo "hello world" | xclip How can combine them as one? echo &...
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How do I copy a string into the midlle mouse button from GUI in Ubuntu?

I have a terminal script (let's call it otp_to_xclip.sh) which makes use of xclip to place a string into the middle mouse button clipboard: #!/usr/bin/bash otp_to_terminal.sh | xclip Now, to paste ...
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First attempt to copy in excel results in error message "Cannot open the clipboard"

I am running Office Home and Student 2013. In Excel, after I open a file or start a new spreadsheet, the first time I try to copy a cell or a range of cells, I get the error message "Cannot open ...
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Automate copying new file in specific folder to clipboard

I'm using a macOS app to create GIFs (called GifFox) but the app does not offer a feature to auto-save to clipboard. However, I can define the location the GIF will be saved to. How can I create an ...
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How to pipe vim clipboard through tmux?

I noticed when using VIM through the terminal, I can easily copy a line of text to my system clipboard using the clipboard register like V"+y (that is, then paste that text to some other window ...
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Microsoft Teams copy/paste exact highlighted text? Do not include message metadata

Microsoft Teams injects a bunch of annoying text when you try to copy/paste a highlighted message. as you can see, I've highlighted the message text. I then copy/paste using the standard Mac keyboard ...
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Copy/paste to and from Windows Virtual Desktop

The virtual machine here is not a general one but Windows virtual machine (WVD: Windows Virtual Desktop) specifically. I can't copy/paste between the Windows virtual machine and my local Windows. I ...
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How to save PowerPoint 365 slide as image at Clipboard quality of JPG or PNG format ? Tech Support typically only supports JPG or PNG for upload

How to save slide as image at Clipboard quality? 1. Screen Capture quality visually identical to Monitor view 1. sample of Screen Capture directly pasted 2. file direct save nor export result in ...
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Access windows clipboard history from past sessions

A week ago I had a quite important link in my clipboard that I lost. I want to find it again. I have Windows 10 feature Clipboard History enabled. So with Win + V I can access my clipboard for this ...
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Extra strange characters when pasting from clipman clipboard manager

I want to paste a clipboard entry, say 12345, from the graphical clipboard manager clipman to a terminal emulator. It is set up to combine the selection and the clipboard. I called up the clipboard ...
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Is there a way to config Bugzilla to allow paste image from clipboard?

I am using Bugzilla 5.0.4. Users can attach images (screen capture) as attachments when filing a new bug. However is there a way to config Bugzilla (or add an extension) to allow the user to paste the ...
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My windows 10 copy/paste clipboard is blocked, what could be the cause?

So I just noticed I cannot copy or paste anything. This also affects the clipboard history feature hidden under WinKey+V. What is the strangest thing is I found a tip on the internet that you can use ...
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Windows 10 won't synchronise keyboard

I have Swiftkey running on a Pixel 6 pro phone running Android 12. Swiftkey has a feature whereby it will synchronise the clipboard contents, through the cloud, to the clipboard on Windows 10. This ...
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Onboard clipboard manager in Windows doesn't show preview (even for text entries)

Using Win+V it's possible to use the built-in Windows clipboard manager. I noticed in my Windows 11 installation it often displays "No preview available" even for simple text entries. ...
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Batch getting URLs in Chrome Inspect-Page-Sources

Below is a screenshot of chrome browser in flickr.com/explore Note that we are inspecting something. Inspect - Sources - Page Q) In this state, how can I get the all URLs below top/combo.staticflickr....
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How to copy (in clipboard) detailed information of a file?

I'm working with Windows-10. I have just worked quite a lot to get ShortSha information in the details of a compiled file. Now I would like to copy that information into clipboard but this seems not ...
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Clipboard Issues with Windows WSL2 GUI Apps (WSLg)

WSL2 now has built-in xserver wslg, but just like reported here, I'm having difficulties letting apps in wslg to sync their x-clipboard content with normal Windows' clipboard. I know there might not ...
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Is it possible to access clipboard when running program remotely, through e.g. wmic or psexec?

I have administrative rights on two computers in domain, suppose there is trivial s.bat on one of them in home directory: echo 123 > 123.txt echo 123 | clip If execution is initiated from 2nd ...
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Enabling clipboard history in windows 10

This question and my answer were originally posted on the Stack Exchange site, but when I asked the moderators to move it here, they closed it instead, so I've moved it myself as I believe my question ...
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how to copy images from windows clipboard to WSL2's clipboard

I have WSL2/Ubuntu setup in windows, and have xclip installed in WSL2. I am using windows 10 + wsl2 + gwsl everything works great, I can share the clipboard between windows and WSL2. However, that ...
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How can I search for a past clipboard item in Ditto based on the time it was placed in the clipboard (= saved in Ditto)?

Ditto is a program that saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing access to any of those items at a later time. How can I search for a past clipboard item in Ditto based on the time it was ...
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sudo eats up commands pasted via putty. Why?

When I paste multiple commands into putty window, commands stop executing after first sudo. Why? My clipboard (I'm careful to copy also newline after the 2nd command) sudo -u smith echo aaaaaaaa ; ...
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How to copy a large terminal history from Alacritty to the system clipboard - the Alacritty clipboard seems to get cut

I installed Alacritty that uses vim to show files but embeds text in the terminal text so that I can copy whatever text from even ssh servers or terminals that do not have a system clipboard, and the ...
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How to split multi-line clipboard data (e.g. from Excel) in single-line "pastes", one CTRL+V at a time

To illustrate my dilemma as simply as possible: I have a list of values ranging from 1-10 that I want to copy and store. When I press Ctrl+V (or any paste execution), I want 1 to be displayed. When I ...
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How to send images to local windows clipboard from ssh connection?

I have an ssh connection to my other computer running Ubuntu. I want to be able to copy an image from a file, example.png and have it show up in the clipboard (not as text) and be able to paste it ...
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Windows 11 adds blank clipboard entry after copying a selection

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm out of ideas on this one. Basically, any time I copy something, a blank entry is added after that. Then I have to open my clipboard to get to what I ...
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How to set the clipboard sharing mode to one-way only in vmware workstation/player

I noticed that VMware's clipboard sharing is a two-way sharing, but because I often run dangerous software in the virtual machine, I don't want the dangerous software inside the virtual machine to ...
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Can you use nircmd to help save clipboard contents to a Batch File variable?

In a batch script, I wish to save the clipboard text into a variable. Having searched it seems that this is not possible without 3rd-party tools. Well I have nircmd, and one of its commands is: "...
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Windows Explorer file order in the clipboard

In my application I want to read files from Windows clipboard, and I want to see its in the same order, as I see this files in the Windows Explorer. E.g. if I ordered files alphabetically, I want to ...
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Have Notepad++ support X11 and GTK clipboards?

As I understand it, the two clipboards I am using in Linux Mint are the X11 and GTK clipboards. Copy to X11 clipboard is automatically done every time I highlight something. Paste from X11 clipboard ...
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Clipboard copy fails

I noticed some time ago that pasting things often pasted some old stuff from clipboard instead of whatever I had just copied. First I thought this has something to do with Excel, but it's apparently a ...
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