When I press and hold the Right-⌥+Right-⌘ (for 0.5 secs), I'd like a window to pop-up the displays the text clipboard. When the modifiers are released, I'd like the window to close.
This seems like a job for BetterTouchTool, but being a novice I'd appreciate any guidance.
TIA.
would BTT's clipboard manager work for you when toggled like this? Or rather just some floating menu that displays text?
Hi, @Andreas_Hegenberg. Thanks for asking.
Since the clipboard contents text can be lengthy, I was hoping to glance at the text (briefly) in a window larger than the clipboard manager. But now I see that the latter can be resized and that resizing seems to persists.
So to answer your first question, yes, the clipboard manager will work nicely.
It's easy to do this in BTT, you know how.
But since I know you'd rather do it in KM. Actually, the KM solution is similar to the one in BTT. That's the only reason I thought of it 
You need two actions when pressing the modifiers because you don’t know for sure which one goes down first. When releasing them, one is enough.
This should work:
R Opt + Cmd (pressed an held) –> Show Clipboard
R Cmd + Opt (pressed an held) –> Show Clipboard
R CMD (Released) –> Hide Clipboard
In case you still want to try with BTT you'd need v6.275 because there was an issue with this specific setup (long press of only modifier keys):
modifier-clipboard.bttpreset (4.5 KB)
Andreas: Why aren't both orders necessary? cmd/opt and opt/cmd?
In your example, pressing Opt first and then Cmd shouldn't trigger anything (Key Down).
correct -it will not, my example requires to first press cmd, then press opt and hold for 0.5s, if you want both ways to work then you'd need to create the same triggers with reverse order
I think Jim wants to press both modifiers “at the same time,” which is hardly possible. So both options are needed … when releasing them as well.
for releasing it's not necessary because "up" keys can be without order:
(but I recommend to try using cmd followed by opt, as this allows you to do something else for opt followed by cmd and it feels pretty natural:-))
Ah, yeah, clever!
I do the same Actually, one modifier is enough for one action. With two modifiers, you can perform four actions.
Edit: übrigens, der beste "1-Finger-Wisch" auf der Tastatur ist links shift + fn. Gefolgt von Caps lock + shift + fn. Feels pretty natural
@Frank1 and @Andreas_Hegenberg, thank you for your help! Based on @Frank1's initial DM to me and @Andreas_Hegenberg's response above, I've adjusted my approach. (I'm really enjoying the design of the Clipboard Manager.)
Two Key Sequences triggers (r⌥ Key Down, r⌘ Key Down; 0.5 secs Trigger only if no further keyboard input is recognized for)
A common Named Action, Show/Hide Clipboard / Pasteboard History (Clipboard Manager)
With this approach, I'm able to quickly display the latest clipboard entry and also leverage the other features of the Clipboard Manager. I'm then using the same r⌥ Key Down, r⌘ Key Down; 0.5 secs to dismiss the Clipboard Manager.
Since I'm using the Setapp version of BTT, for now, I'm limited to BTT v5.750. Maybe v6.275 is not required because, per @Frank1 initial recommendation, I'm using Trigger only if no further keyboard input is recognized for rather than Sequence duration must be greater than.
In conclusion, thanks again for the help. It's great when the outcome is better than the original plan. 
Ah true, that will have mostly the same effect! Glad you found a setup that works well for you!
