WinV brings Windows' Win+V clipboard history to GNOME Shell
Win-V combo from Windows on Ubuntu
WinV is a GNOME Shell extension that adds a searchable, local-only clipboard history to Ubuntu 26.04, inspired by Windows' Win+V feature. It works without a daemon, X11 helper, or network service, and stores ordinary history only in memory. Pinned items are saved locally with user-only permissions. The extension supports text and images (PNG, JPEG, WebP), keyboard navigation, pinning, editing, private mode, and an optional Super+V shortcut. It also includes offline emoji and Unicode symbol pickers. The project is open source under the MIT License.
The only strong preference is that changes keep clipboard data local and treat it as sensitive.
- boredishBoi
KDE ships klipper by default which is the same thing and works fantastically. Supports multimedia and is fast, I only wish it had a cli tool instead of having to use xclip or qdbus. On windows I find ditto much more performant than the native clipboard manager.
- _def
Specifically for GNOME there are numerous extensions where at least one of them can be assigned hotkeys for: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicat...
- masfuerte
The emoji and symbol picker on Windows 10 has type-to-search for emojis but not for symbols. It's such an annoying restriction. It's quicker to find and copy symbols from the web than trying to find them in the picker.
I don't know if Windows 11 is the same, but I hope this software hasn't copied it if it is.