Bug 362727

Summary:	When Keepassx clears clipboard with password, he stays in Klipper
Product:	[Unmaintained] klipper	Reporter:	svadkost
Component:	plasma-widget	Assignee:	Martin Flöser <mgraesslin>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	germano.massullo
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.6.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description svadkost 2016-05-05 21:57:44 UTC

When KeePassX clears clipboard with password, he stays in Klipper window even through i can't paste it anymore without select it in Klipper.
Option "Prevent empty clipboard" is turned off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy password from Keepassx
2.wait, before Keepassx clear clipboard

Actual Results:  
I can't paste password in text field, but password still visible in Klipper window and i can select it from here (by first selecting another item), and then paste.

Expected Results:  
Clipboard should be cleared everywhere.

Keepassx version 2.0.2

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2016-05-06 05:46:04 UTC

I'm sorry, but that is just not possible from a technical point of view. In the days before becoming the maintainer of klipper and understanding how this technically works I reported a similar bug 156547.

Technically that's just not possible. We don't get a signal "don't save this password", we just get a "hey the new clipboard content is an empty string". We don't have any meta information about the clipboard content. We don't know that it is a password, we don't know which application send it, and so on.