by default BTT also doesn't capture these, but you probably tried enabling this:
yep that's why you are now seeing the typinator stuff, if it didn't affect your screenshots you should disable it again.
Cool. Thanks, that fixed the Typinator issue, but the original issue still exists with screenshots not being recorded in BTT.
And, any way to customize these options below the preview
yes, you can drag them around or right-click to hide
i mean can I add new ones? my own options.
yes, these are available in "Automations, Named & Other Triggers" and are called "Clipboard Manager / Java Script Transformer"
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Thanks.
About the screenshot > clipboard issue, any directions you can give me, what can I try to narrow down the issue?
Unfortunately I currently have no idea. I would try to close all running apps except BTT to see whether it still happens, then I would try to delete/reset the clipboard database.
I'll check whether I can add some more logs to see why the clipboard manager is not recording.
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@Andreas_Hegenberg Any way i can change the clipboard background color? like by default for all clipboard entries.
It's difficult to read black on black.
Alfred has white on black.
if the text was copied with formatting, BTT will show it with formatting by default. You can change it in the settings to “always render in plain text”
Thanks.
I didn't mean text background, i meant the background of the BTT clipboard app. So it's easy to read. If the text has formatting or it's own background color, that can still show up on the BTT background
The problem is, there is no background color that works for all situations. In Dark mode you often copy white formatted text, so using a white background will have the same issue. (Only the render as plain text option can really resolve this but of course with other limitations)
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any way to clear entire clipboard history? I only see delete selected items or specific items. any way to clear the entire thing?
@Andreas_Hegenberg
To clear the clipboard I tried these commands and they don't reliably clear the clipboard. Many times I have to restart BTT after removing these files to actually clear it. I think BTT is caching the clipboard in memory and doesn't get updated on file removal.
rm -f "~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite"
rm -f "~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite-shm"
rm -f "~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite-wal"
yes you need to quit BTT before running these commands
Thanks. Is it possible to have an action called clear clipboard? Would be great as automations can just call it and leave BTT running (Floating view, etc don't get affected in case there is working being done in them).
For now I'm using Delete specific items from clipboard with the first 1000 entries 1,2....1000. Would be good to have an action within BTT to clear everything since the functionality to delete exists. But just deletes specific items.
yes I can make such an action available. What is your use case for this? (Most users use the clipboard manager to keep history)
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