BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

I think I finally figured out what caused the display issue/corruption. Should be resolved in 5.167 alpha

I don't understand the "Double Leftclick", what do you mean by that?

About the "Double Leftclick":

If this is active and triggered the clipboard is closing no matter where on the Clipboard Manager this double click is executed.

Ah I see, that is kind of expected as the double-click trigger is really just that. You can use an advanced trigger condition that checks the hovered_element_details for whether it contains AXTable

Yep, this solves it. Just for completeness here's the condition which also avoid closing on double click in the right panel:

hovered_element_details CONTAINS "AXTable" AND (hovered_element_details != "AXTextArea")

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@Andreas_Hegenberg
Report a bug:
When I click on the snippets group and then click on the "saved Searches" filter again, the list will be empty.
I guess and verify that after clicking on snippets first, clicking on "saved Searches" below again should perform a search only under the just-selected snippets group. But now the snippets group is not selected, which is confusing.
It is hoped that the saved search is filtered in "All Items".

Another one from me:

If I open Clipboard manager and start searching while holding the Shift key (to type uppercase) the search box is not activated respectively the search doesn't work as expected - it is matching the first occurrence but the results, in the middle panel, are not filtered.

I know that the search is not case-sensitive (right?), but sometimes if I remember that what I'm searching is all caps, my muscle memory kicks in and shift is being pressed.

Happy to see all the improvements to the BTT clipboard!

I am looking to enable multiple clipboards through snippet groups, but there's an action missing.

Copying is already implemented through the "Copy to clipboard manager snippet group" action, but a "Paste from clipboard manager snippet group" action is also needed.

Another idea would be to have this functionality added to the Paste specific items from clipboard manager (customizable), so that it could be even more powerful. Personally, I see value in both suggested actions.

To clarify the use case, in addition to ⌘C/⌘V, I am looking to implement multiple other clipboards though ⌥C/⌥V, etc.

What do you think Andreas?

Dont know if its been up here before. But got a strange thing with universal clipboard from iphone to macos when copying text from image. It gets displayed as a .rtfd file and pastes the link to file: "/var/folders/r_/c4kg2p0n43j7881c9jh01t400000gn/T/com.apple.useractivityd/shared-pasteboard/items/6393C9C5-DFA1-4BB2-80D4-A35657B8DC40/2905d3e4f00a70df186b5bf531da9cee432dc233.rtfd"

It was a copy of a photo from Terminal output from another computer thats in recovery mode. I think it fromatted it in rows and columns. When trying to paste it to chatgpt it ends up as a .zip file? hehe

I have now added that functionality in v5.177

If I open Clipboard manager and start searching while holding the Shift key (to type uppercase) the search box is not activated respectively the search doesn't work as expected - it is matching the first occurrence but the results, in the middle panel, are not filtered.

This should also be resolved

Awesome thank you! I set it up ant after some testing I suspect there may be an issue with the Copy to Clipboard Manager Snippet Group action - even though Don't Show in "All Items" is checked, the default ⌘V will still paste something copied with the ⌥C trigger if ⌥C is the latest Copy Method used (unexpected). If ⌘C is used thereafter, the clipboards remain separate (expected).

Steps to Reproduce:

⌘C : "Text_1"
⌘V = "Text_1"

⌥C : "Text_2"
⌥V = "Text_2"

⌘V = "Text_2" ---- UNEXPECTED

⌘C : "Text_1"
⌘V = "Text_1"

⌥V = "Text_2" ---- EXPECTED

Andreas, can you include option (or make it default) to ignore/not show empty items, e.g.

this is not an issue, I've just copied an empty row. I know that in reality that it isn't empty, but contains something like "\n" or "^M" etc.

Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg , I'm experiencing the following issue (10-20 times per day) - the paste does not work unless I actually copy the item. Below is a video of the issue. At the end when the paste did work, because before that I actually copied the item:

This is not related to the current BTT Version: 5.191 (2025021210), since it is happening for at least 1 week.

If I do another/different copy of text/image (not from clipboard, but standard Copy) it starts working again .

weird can you see any pattern as to when this happens? Maybe when copying from a specific app?

When using clipboard history with screen share it only pastes "v". I guess the CM uses cmd+v, and the computer doesnt get the cmd input?

Would it be possible to change the CM paste option depending on the app it pastes in? So if paste wont work in screen share i can have "type text" in that app?
Ive had some times where it also wont paste in other apps, and if i change paste option and change it back it works again. I dont know if its something other on my computer that interrupts it.

I cannot see any pattern, also no specific app. At this very moment I'm facing this. Is there something which I can check? In the clipboard DB or something else?

can you check what types it recorded by clicking the "auto" dropdown?

public.utf8-plain-text

weird, that should paste everywhere.

If you get into this state, does it not paste any of your copied things anymore or just the latest copied stuff?

Just the last copied item, even if I now manually copy this last item using "Just Copy" or any other similar action it will start working.