The desktop
Clipboard and screenshots
Copy and paste, the same everywhere
Terminals and other programs disagree about which keys copy and paste. Alpymist gives you one set that works in every window:
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| Super+C | Copy |
| Super+X | Cut |
| Super+V | Paste |
Each sends the focused window the keys it understands: Ctrl+Shift+C to a terminal, Ctrl+C to anything else. The usual keys still work as they always did.
Clipboard history
A history of what you copied is useful, and it also keeps every password and token you copy. So it is off until you turn it on, in Settings › Clipboard:
| Setting | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Keep a history | Off | Keep what you copy, to paste again |
| Keep it after logging out | Off | Keep it in a file only you can read, rather than in memory only |
| Entries kept | 50 | The oldest go first. Pinned entries are not counted. |
| Forget it when the screen locks | On | Forget all but pinned entries at every lock |
| Clear the history | Forget everything but pinned entries, now |
With it on, Super+Shift+V opens the history in the menu:
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| Typing | Searches |
| Enter | Pastes the entry |
| Ctrl+S | Pins it, so it is never forgotten |
| Delete | Forgets it |
What a password manager marks as secret is never kept. Text up to 1 MiB and images up to 16 MiB are; an image shows as a line naming its size.
alpymist set clipboard.history true
alpymist clipboard list
alpymist clipboard pin ID
alpymist clipboard clear
Screenshots
Print lets you drag out a region. It is saved as
screenshot-<date>-<time>.png in your home directory and put on the
clipboard as well, ready to paste.
Capture in the menu has the four combinations:
| Entry | Takes | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Region to clipboard | A region you drag | The clipboard |
| Region to file | A region you drag | A file in your home directory |
| Screen to file | The whole screen | A file in your home directory |
| Screen to clipboard | The whole screen | The clipboard |
Press Esc while choosing a region to give up.
Sharing your screen
Browsers and Flatpak applications share a screen through the desktop portal, which asks you first. Apart from that and the screenshot tool, no program is allowed to read what is on the screen; see Security.