BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

@StanN, there is no icon for screenshots, I believe it never had.
There's a timestamp under each entry, but you need to hover that item, however I can sometimes reproduce timestamp to be shown even if the item is not hovered (but it was hovered at some point).

@Andreas_Hegenberg, @StanN are you guys able to reproduce the behavior in my latest screen capture?

Hey @Andreas_Hegenberg , when I perform a copy on an Excel cell (file is CSV, but even with xls or xlsx the result is the same), the clipboard item is shown as a picture in the middle panel, but on the right one is rendered as text. Is this expected? I cannot search for this item.

I've unchecked the "DISABLE Microsoft Office performance optimizations" and "Always Render As Plain Text", but this did not made any difference.

Ah I think I need to add a special case for excel (microsoft does a lot of weird things with the clipboard)

Currently the only workaround is to disable any image types for microsoft apps using this terminal command (while BTT is quit)

defaults write com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool BTTClipboardMicrosoftAllowedTypes -array "public.html" "public.rtf" "public.utf16-external-plain-text" "com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text" "public.utf8-plain-text" "public.utf16-plain-text"

Thanks Andreas. Will this affect something else related to the Microsoft apps? I mainly copy text, and occasionally some pictures from the MS apps.

yes it would disable all picture recording.

I think I can add the workaround with the next alpha

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Thank you. Looking forward to the new settings. When I use Axure for prototyping, I also encounter this problem. The copying of design elements turns into pictures, and I can't paste the original design elements correctly.

this is just about the preview / search text. Pasting the originally copied item is always possible because BTT by default doesn't modify what the system has copied before pasting it.

Andreas, with SF Symbols installed (Apple's macOS app to manage their icons), select an icon and Copy Image As... as SVG to copy to clipboard, then open BTT's clipboard manager:

  1. I just see a spinning wheel but no preview of the SVG.
  2. Edit Image shows no image.
  3. Try changing from auto to file.contents crashes BTT

Using the excellent pasteboard viewer app (GitHub - sindresorhus/Pasteboard-Viewer: 📋 Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS) and the clipboard contents is visible:

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Hey! Great to hear that :raising_hands:
Any plan to make it possible to rename favorites?