I was just reading this thread… https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

…and it got me thinking about something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I’d love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they’re not exactly comfortable. I’d rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

  • criticon
    4·
    3 months ago

    I recently switched to Linux and I miss Win+V a lot. I keep pressing it expecting something to happen out of habit

      • criticon
        2·
        3 months ago

        Did you install something else? I’m using mint and I installed a clipboard manager but I haven’t been able to bind it to win+v and also it doesn’t work as well as the windows implementation

        • camr_on@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          I think it’s just a vanilla option, I have KDE on endeavorOS. It’s not quite as smooth as the windows implementation but it’s really nice to have

      • criticon
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yes, if you enable clipboard you can access it with that shortcut

    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 months ago

      in a hyprland config i used to use win+v had a clipboard history thing pop up wherever your cursor was