Keyboard shortcuts — Klippster docs

#The shortcuts

Shortcut	Does	Active
`⌘⇧V`	Paste Clipboard as… — clipboard into the open folder as a file	Only while Finder is frontmost
`⌘⇧C`	Copy to Clipboard as… — the selected file, in another format	Only while Finder is frontmost
`⌘⌥V`	Open Clipboard History	Everywhere — global on purpose
`Space`	Quick Look the selected clip	In the Clipboard History window

All of them are remappable in Settings → Shortcuts, and can be reset there too.

#Why ⌘⇧V does not break anything

⌘⇧V is already macOS's Paste and Match Style. A menu-bar app that claimed it globally would take that away from every text field on the system — which is the kind of thing you discover three weeks later, in someone else's document.

So Klippster does not claim it globally. It registers the hotkey when Finder activates and hands it straight back the moment Finder resigns.

Finder becomes frontmost   →  ⌘⇧V and ⌘⇧C registered
Finder resigns             →  both released

Everywhere else            →  ⌘⇧V is still Paste and Match Style

How it works: the hotkeys are registered with Carbon's RegisterEventHotKey, gated on NSWorkspace application-activation notifications. The effect is a dedicated Finder command that costs no other app a keystroke.

The trade is that these two need the Automation permission described in Install — the hotkey does not go through the Finder extension, it asks Finder for the frontmost window's folder and writes there directly. Decline it and you keep every Finder right-click menu and every Services row, and lose only the two shortcuts.

The upside of not going through the extension: the shortcuts work in iCloud Drive, where the right-click submenus cannot appear at all. See Troubleshooting.

#The history hotkey is different

⌘⌥V is global, and that is intentional. A clipboard history you can only reach from Finder would be useless — the moment you want a clip from last Tuesday is almost always the moment you are in a mail window or an editor, not in Finder.

It stays registered whether or not Clipboard History is switched on. With recording off, the window opens and tells you it is off rather than appearing broken.

#If a shortcut does nothing

Nothing happens in Finder. The permission was probably declined or reset by a macOS update. Re-grant it in System Settings; Klippster picks the shortcuts back up without a restart.
Another app took the key. Two apps can register the same global hotkey and the first one wins. Remap Klippster's in Settings → Shortcuts.
⌘⇧V pastes plain text instead. Finder was not actually frontmost — a Finder window being visible is not the same as Finder being the active application. Click the window first.

Troubleshooting has the rest.