Being the avid Ubuntu users you all are, I’m sure you have also noticed one of those glaring bugs (yes, I consider this a bug) that has yet to be completely closed. It has to do with copy/paste. Yes, I know that copy/pasting things works…for the most part. There is that one lingering issue still, and feel free to try it out. Insert short-term memory loss…
Open a text file, copy something, close that window before pasting, open gedit, paste… Did anything happen? Probably not. The reason for this is because when the originating window is closed the clipboard forgets what was copied, thus not allowing a paste. There are programs that can fix this, but I think I may have discovered my favorite. Pastie.
Pastie is a clipboard manager with the memory of an elephant. It resides in your Indicator Applet and allows the ability to remember items that were copied historically. This is nice because you can re-paste items that were copied hours or even days ago. This is great if you’re like me and frequently forget terminal commands. 😉
Other new features Pastie 0.5.2 (stable) since the last stable version:
- it’s very easy to use a custom icon for Pastie: simply place the icon you want Pastie to use in the ~/.pastie/ folder (folder does not already exist). The icon must be renamed to “pastie.svg” (“svg” can be any other kind of usable type of image). You can find an Elementary icon here, and mono icons here.
- you can launch the Pastie preferences dialog using a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + P.
It’s a great little program. Here’s how to get it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hel-sheep/pastie && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install pastie
If you want to remove the PPA and downgrade, re-enable the PPA in System > Administration > Software Sources
sudo apt-get update
wget https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa... && sudo dpkg -i ppa-purge*.deb
sudo ppa-purge ppa:hel-sheep/pastie
And everything will be back as it was.
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