
It's a shame that Microsoft abandoned this very useful feature, instead of making it easier to figure out and adjust so that it was actually helpful and not an annoyance.

(Such as when creating mail merges.) He could be adjusted to be invisible all other times, unless summoned. It was possible to adjust the digital assistant to only appear in instances where you might really need him. He was way more tolerable, and even useful. I preferred The Professor, who looked like Einstein, and he had a different "personality" than Max. Once you did that you got a full slate of potential configurations and even a choice of other characters. The clipboard is a facility used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations.

The trick, as I recall, was to hold down the command key and click on Max himself. Once it’s running, you just cut and paste as normal, but when you want to access an older clipboard item, you simply click on the jumpcut icon in the menubar and it will give you a list of your most recent copies. clipmenu is a simple clipboard manager using dmenu (or rofi) and xsel.
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original) Macintosh.Ī lot of Mac users hated Max, but that was because they couldn't figure out how to turn off or adjust the intrusive digital assistant. clipmenu simple clipboard manager using dmenu (or rofi) and xsel. But I use a Mac, and the default digital assistant in Microsoft Office for the Macintosh was Max, not Clipy. by maifz Clipmenu via i3wm not copying to clipboard Hejhej, im currently setting up my i3wm and rofi. It would probably bring back a lot of memories if I was a Windows user. To trigger the option menu, simply launch ClipMenu, then click on something using the gesture you picked (by default, holding Control and clicking.) A menu will pop up, showing all of the options you’ve selected: You can also set specific gestures for specific actions.
