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Whoa, you can now search clipboard history. Go to Spotlight Search, Command+4. You'll get a list of entries, each with a copy button, and is searchable. Even shows the app it was copied in.


At last Apple implemented a decent clipboard history. KDE has this thing for a decade now, I guess...

KDE also can encode entries as QR codes, so you can make URLs transferable to your phone or whatnot.

-- Sent from my MacBook Air.


If you use KDE Connect, your clipboard history immediately goes to your phone's clipboard :)


macOS/ios can also share clipboards for awhile now.

For KDE Connect, does the phone have to be an Android or ?


KDE Connect works on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS


KDE Connect exists on both iOS and Android, though some functions like text messages aren't available on iOS.


KDE doesn't have infinite clipboard history yet, like the GPaste extension for GNOME Shell has.


I'm fine with ~250 entries (which I configured), plus search. I don't prefer to have "forever" files which grows all the time.

I found out that being able to let go of things relieves a lot of load over one's proverbial and literal shoulders.


CopyQ works for forever history for me, it also doesn't save copied passwords, which is nice.


How does it detect passwords? Usually those are just plain-text when copied.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

Either way, I think it is better to not copy passwords to the clipboard or the selection, but store and transfer them via password-manager/browser/etc APIs.


With KDE on Wayland, there is a clipboard hint MIME type `x-kde-passwordManagerHint` for passwords that clipboard managers can choose to drop.


Not too much support out there, but at least some important things do:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=x-kde-passwordManager...


At least in my experience, it works with the password and clipboard managers I use, and even some command-line utilities like wl-clipboard.

Wish it was a protocol-level setting, though, instead of something KDE specific and honored at the application level.


More like, almost 3 decades.


Including passwords from password managers?


Pretty handy, right :)?

And seriously, managers like 1Password clear the clipboard after some time. I would guess that there’s some clipboard API that allows managers to exclude copied passwords from being permanently added to the history.

Still, there are pieces of data that one might not want to store in such unobvious place as clipboard history so it’s good to know about it.


I use KeePassXC which does empty the keyboard after a few seconds. But keeping history seems like a breaking change to the social (if not technical) contract of the OS' clipboard API.


Windows has this with Win+V for those wondering.


There were already a zillion and one apps (Maccy, ClipMenu, Jumpcut, Flycut, Alfred, ...) that provided this.

It'll be one of the first things I turn off whenever I get around to installing it ~6+ months from now.


Does that mean that add-on clipboard managers like Maccy are obsolete now?


In most cases Apple’s integrations do the 20% that 80% of users want. Third party apps give the additional 80% of features that the 20% may want.

How obsolete those apps are depends on you as a user.


No. Spotlight’s clipboard history doesn’t even keep items for longer than eight hours.


Wow, didn't realise there was more than one tab


When you open it for the first time there is a display that tells you all the shortcuts.

Beyond that, if you move your mouse while Spotlight is on-screen, it shows the tabs and tells you the shortcuts as you hover over them.




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