Why is BetterDisplay shown as the source of values in my clipboard history? #4424
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Hmm. I am not sure about this one, this issue did not come up so far. The app should not interfere with the clipboard in any way. Can you share a screenshot of what you see and where? :) |
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Anyway, I think since clipboard history is afaik not a macOS feature (before macOS 26 Tahoe), whatever Clipboard History third party app is being used, it might somehow misidentify which app provides the clipboard content. It might be so because it probably takes the app with the top-level window at the time of the copy operation, which might be BetterDisplay as it can have a hidden top-level technical window on the desktop (this is a normal practice to enforce screen refresh on color table operations or for other similar purposes). So I think the problem is with the third party app, not with BetterDisplay. The clipboard history in macOS 26 Tahoe seems fine with the app, the system properly listing and identifying the source of the clipboard item. |
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I am running on macOs Sequoia 15.5 (24F74) and I have clipboard history installed. Until I started the trial with BetterDisplay, each clipboard history item was linked to the respective app where I copied the string. Since BetterDisplay is installed, the only source app shown in the clipboard history is BetterDisplay. I have never granted BetterDisplay to receive keystrokes and the privacy settings in macOs settings also do not show that BetterDisplay has access to input monitoring
Please elaborate why am I seeing this?
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