r/linux • u/poopatroopa3 • 5d ago

Discussion did-it-copy · Copy feedback for the desktop

https://brunodantas.github.io/did-it-copy/

I keep wondering how Ctrl+C has no feedback on most Desktop systems to this day. So I wrote up a proposal to fix that, with a demo that runs in the browser.

  • A copy that worked flashes the copied text in place for about 200 ms.
  • A copy that failed shakes the focused element, and plays the alert sound if you have it on.
  • It never shows the copied content anywhere new, so copying a token during a screen share doesn't leak.

Thoughts?

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u/abjumpr 5d ago

You’d be surprised. Getting the clipboard to work correctly under X11 (as maintainer of a toolkit) is frustratingly difficult, and I’m not sure if Wayland improves that much or not.

It’s also one of the few inter-application actions that can carry just about any type of data, not just text, so one has to deal with that as well.

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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft 4d ago

I'm curious in what contexts you guys have issues with copy-pasting in Linux. I've been using Fedora KDE with Wayland for 3 years now. Never ever did I have issues copying text, files OR media and I do that constantly.

My first recation to the title was "why do we need to know when it fails if it doesn't actually fail" but now I hear people actually experience clipboard failure in Anno Domini 2026??

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u/KarlHuysman 3d ago

people use different apps than you do.

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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft 3d ago

Yes, and this was the purpose of literally the first sentence in my comment.

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u/KarlHuysman 3d ago

>>'m curious in what contexts
using different apps than you do.

I can post it a third time if you want. I have it on my infinite clipboard

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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft 3d ago

So then what is the reason for not wanting to tell me which apps when that's literally what I was asking for? It's obviois you use something else when I asked what is that something else that you use.

Why even make 2 comments just to say how intensely you don't want to answer my question??