Clipboard guides
Install, safety, first-run, and migration notes for a local CopyQ setup. Start with the OS that matches your machine, then keep one update door. These pages support the same clipboard habit without Softonic mirrors.
Windows readers should prefer winget hluk.CopyQ or copyq-*-setup.exe on the current GitHub tag. macOS readers use brew cask or the matching dmgs. Linux readers prefer the x86_64 AppImage. Brew and AppImage commands remain UNVERIFIED until run on your machine.
Each guide ends with related doors so a teammate can find releases, download-safe habits, and the first-hour checklist without inventing a second binary. Portal ads stay separate from the GPL-3.0 program licence. Upstream bugs belong on hluk/CopyQ issues, while guide corrections belong on the contact page.
After you finish an OS install page, prove one tray paste before you add tabs or scripts. Document whether winget, setup.exe, brew, dmg, or AppImage owns the machine. That note prevents duplicate clipboard installs after a reimage.
Install
- Install on Windows Install a local clipboard manager on Windows with winget install -e --id hluk.CopyQ or copyq-*-setup.exe from GitHub Rel…
- Install on macOS Install a local clipboard manager on macOS with brew install --cask copyq or the matching CopyQ-*-macos-*.dmg from GitHu…
- Install on Linux Install a local clipboard manager on Linux by taking CopyQ-*-x86_64.AppImage from the same hluk/CopyQ tag as the Windows…
- Portable zip Download copyq-*.zip from GitHub Releases, extract it, run the executable, and document portable mode for later clipboar…
How-to
- Is it safe? CopyQ is GPL-3.0 on GitHub with public release checksums. Prefer Releases or winget hluk.CopyQ over Softonic-style clipb…
- First run After install, prove the tray, set one hotkey, choose retention, and write the clipboard update door before you customiz…
- Hotkeys Pick a free show-window hotkey, test it from several apps, and keep it stable across clipboard updates.…
- Tabs and scripts Tabs organize snippets and scripts transform text. Both are optional after a basic clipboard tray works reliably.…
- Update and uninstall Return to the same clipboard door you used on install day, prefer current release assets, and clear data folders when re…
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Cluster pages: releases, GitHub, download safe, for this computer.