In the clipboard history I have a number of favourites. Is it possible to lock them so they cannot be accidentally deleted?
Or is there another way to organise a number of clips that are easy to get at for pasting but cannot be accidentally deleted?
(somewhat related: I’d like the distinction between copied items and favourite items to be more pronounced than the difference between a star with a light grey core and one with a light yellow core)
No, there is no way to lock favourites. Why do you find yourself deleting them? There is rarely any need to delete clipboard history entries, they are deleted automatically after they reach the 200th (by default) position.
An alternative is to use Named Clipboards instead.
Thanks for speedy reply. 200 is a lot, but as I constantly use the clipboard history, I sometimes “clean” the list a little. Even if I did not, two other things make me slightly paranoid: (1) the colour of the favourites is barely different from the normal ones so they are difficult to spot, and (2) they change place: after use they go to the top, so they are no longer in the order in which I put them. I’ll try your suggestion of named clipboards, had not really thought about that, and it seems to solve the “problems”.
OOPS! no, it does not: if one switcher is active the other is not… I would like both windows!
And OOPS once more: just discovered (after a decade of use!) that it’s sufficient to click on the little watch to switch between them, so that will do the trick fine. Sorry…
(btw: display text briefly does not seem to work on my machine (display text large does, but takes all of my second screen and stays up far too long) Sierra macbook pro)
Display Text Briefly is simply a notification, so it goes to your notifications center - perhaps you've adjusted your settings so they do not appear?
Indeed, all notifications are turned off, I hate being interrupted. OK, understood.
I needed it in a hotkey macro for toggling something on/off, I’ve used a sound instead (high pitch on, low pitch off) and that’s fine.
And things now work as desired, thanks for the tips.
You can easily change this.
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.engine MaxClipboardHistory -int 50
will set it to 50.
See here for this and more preferences.
Thanks Tom for this!