Just beat me to it, Rob! I was going to say... Looks like you may be using an older version the app. Here's what my 'About' screen looks like with version number highlighted at the bottom. As Rob said in a separate thread:
Quicksilver has been 64-bit for many years now. Unfortunately, there are a few versions out there with broken update code, so you probably missed quite a few updates may have missed an update. You can get the current version from https://qsapp.com/download.php > On 21 Sep 2019, at 17:11, Athel Cornish-Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's what I thought it was supposed to do, but it doesn't, unless "do > something" means try to paste something into an open file. In its present > state it's virtually unusable. > > Two things I didn't mention in my earlier query. On the set-up I was using > when I posted originally I have a second monitor, so it wasn't too clear > where the "edge of the screen" is, but wherever I tried I got the same > result. Today I'm using the same computer without a second monitor, but it's > the same. The other point is that I have my dock in a column at the left, not > along the bottom of the screen. Should that make a difference? > > I don't know what version of Quicksilver I have. If I select About > Quicksilver I get a three columns of Chinese, plus some readable text in a > very small typeface that says ß61 (3900) ©2001-2011. Nothing that resembles > 1.6.1. > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:12 PM Rob McBroom <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 18 Sep 2019, at 11:51, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: > > > I was happily using Quicksilver for a while (mainly using the > > clipboard),. > > For some reason I got out of the habit but now I need to reactivate > > it. > > When I was using it before the Clipboard history window stayed open > > until I > > closed it, but now it closes by itself, sometimes so quickly that I > > haven't > > found the entry I want to paste before it closes. > > If it’s docked to the edge of the screen, it will disappear on > mouse-out. Otherwise, it should stay around until you do something. > > > The Clipboard preference window has just three items (should there be > > more?): Capture history (checked); 20 items; Hide after pasting > > (unchecked, > > but I don't see an difference in behaviour whether checked or > > unchecked). I > > installed the plug-in today, so I suppose it's the current version. > > The latest is 1.6.1, but off the top of my head, I don’t remember if > that’s available for 10.13 or not. (You won’t see newer version if > it won’t work on your machine.) > > -- > Rob McBroom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:blacktree-quicksilver%[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/56C47D7B-4923-4706-83FE-9FF55D9FF9AD%40skurfer.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/56C47D7B-4923-4706-83FE-9FF55D9FF9AD%40skurfer.com>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/CAFTyh9ujCFwcDKomW404bhEDuaDa9qfY-ntBNFkw97oXn2pkPg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/CAFTyh9ujCFwcDKomW404bhEDuaDa9qfY-ntBNFkw97oXn2pkPg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/4B5D1E71-EEC2-4F41-88AD-8272023999FE%40gmail.com.
