- How to preserve the order of copied items on copy or pasting multiple items?
- How does pasting single/multiple items internally work?
- How to open the menu or context menu with only the keyboard?
- Is it possible to hide menu bar to have even cleaner main window?
- How to enable logging?
- How to back up commands?
- Where are the notifications?
- How to reuse file paths copied from a file manager?
- How to paste as plain text?
- Where to find saved items and configuration?
- Why are items and configuration not saved?
- How to load shared commands and share them?
- How to open application window or tray menu using shortcut?
- How to omit storing text copied from specific windows like a password manager?
- How to paste double-clicked item from application window?
- Where do I find the log files?
- reverse order of selected items with
Ctrl+Shift+Rand copy them or - select items in reverse order and copy
See #165
Return key copies the whole item (with all formats) to the clipboard and -- if the "Paste to current window" option is enabled -- it sends Shift+Insert to previous window. So the target application decides what format to paste on Shift+Insert.
If you select more items and press Return, just the concatenated text of selected items is put into clipboard. Thought it could do more in future, like join HTML, images or other formats.
See #165
- use
Alt+Ito open the item menu - use the
Menukey on your keyboard to open the context menu of an item
Menu bar can be hidden by modifying style sheet of current theme.
- Open Preferences dialog (Ctrl+P),
- go to Appearance,
- enable checkbox "Set colors for tabs, tool bar and menus",
- click "Edit Theme" button,
- find
menu_bar_cssoption and addheight: 0so it will be something like:
menu_bar_css="
;height: 0
;background: ${bg}
;color: ${fg}"
- From CopyQ 2.1.0 there are two new environment variables
COPYQ_LOG_LEVELandCOPYQ_LOG_FILEyou can set. See #195 - Before CopyQ 2.1.0:
If want to see console logs you have to redirect stdout and stderr with appending1> logfile 2>&1e.g.copyq.exe 1> server.log 2>&1
- From CopyQ 2.1.0 there are two buttons under the
Commandstab in the preferences.Save Selected Commands...andLoad Commands. Additionally you can copy and paste commands from theCommandstab in the preferences.
The default values for Interval in seconds to display notifications and Number of lines for clipboard notification are 0. After increasing these values the notifications will be shown.
By default only the text is stored in item list when you copy of cut files from a file manager. Other data are usually needed to be able to copy/paste files from CopyQ.
You have to add new data formats (MIME) to format list in "Data" item under "Item" configuration tab. Commonly used format in many file managers is text/uri-list. Other special formats include x-special/gnome-copied-files for Nautilus, application/x-kde-cutselection for Dolphin. These formats are used to specify type of action (copy or cut).
- In the
Commands/Global Shortcuts dialog [F6]you canAddthe commandPaste clipboard as plain textand set the desiredGlobal Shortcut. - In the
Commands/Global Shortcuts dialog [F6]you canAddthe commandPaste as Plain Text. You can now to paste an item as plain text from the item list withShift+Returnor with the help of the context menu. - You can also disallow rich text storing (so Shift+Enter pastes plain text out-of-the-box) -- go to preferences, "Items" tab and uncheck "Web" checkbox under "Text" uncheck "HTML" checkbox. See #308
You can find configuration and saved items in:
- Windows folder
%APPDATA%\copyqfor installed version of the app orconfigfolder in unzipped portable version, - Linux directory
~/.config/copyq.
Run copyq info config to get absolute path to the configuration file (parent directory contains saved items).
NOTE: Main configuration for installed version of the app on Windows is stored in registry.
Check access rights to configuration directory and files.
You can stumble upon code that looks like this.
[Command]
Name=Show/hide main window
Command=copyq: toggle()
Icon=\xf022
GlobalShortcut=ctrl+shift+1This code represents a command that can used in CopyQ (specifically it opens main window on Ctrl+Shift+1). To use the command in CopyQ:
- copy the code above,
- open Command dialog F6 in CopyQ,
- click "Paste Commands" button at the bottom of the dialog,
- click OK button.
(Now you should be able to open main window with Ctrl+Shift+1.)
To share your commands, you can select the commands from command list in Command dialog and press "Copy Selected" button (or just hit Ctrl+C).
Add new command to open window or menu with global shortcut:
- open Command dialog F6 in CopyQ,
- click "Add" button in the dialog,
- select "Show/hide main window" or "Show the tray menu" from the list and click "OK" button,
- click the button next to "Global Shortcut" label and set the shortcut,
- click "OK" button to save the changes.
For more information about commands see Writing Commands and Adding Functionality.
Add and modify automatic command to ignore text copied from the window:
- open Command dialog F6 in CopyQ,
- click "Add" button in the dialog,
- select "Ignore Password window" from the list and click "OK" button,
- select "Show Advanced"
- change Window text box to match the title (or part of it) of the window to ignore (e.g.
KeePass), - click "OK" button to save the changes.
Note: This new command should be at top of the command list because automatic commands are executed in order they appear in the list and we don't want to process sensitive data in any way.
- Open Preferences (Ctrl+P),
- go to History tab,
- enable "Paste to current window" option.
Next time you open main window and activate an item it should be pasted.
Press the F12 shortcut or find your log files usually under ~/.local/share/copyq/copyq/copyq.log.