Bug 395284

Summary:	Clipboard entries added by xclip are not accessible by ctrl-v
Product:	[Applications] klipper	Reporter:	MichaelOF <michaelof>
Component:	plasma-widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	travneff
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.12.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description MichaelOF 2018-06-12 16:56:32 UTC

Plasma 5.12.5 on OpenSuse 15.0 

When I copy an entry via xclip on bash to X clipboard, e.g.

echo abc | xclip -r

"abc" is shown as latest entry in clipboard plasmoid, as expected.

But whyever, this entry is NOT accessible by ctrl-v, as usual for clipboard entries. If older "manually" added (ctrl-c) entries in clipboard history exists, the latest entry of these is pasted, instead.

100% reproducible.

Comment 1 MichaelOF 2018-06-12 18:07:03 UTC

Got a hint in #kde that it might work with klipper's setting "sync clipboard and selection" set to true. 

True, works when set. But I don't like this "selection" setting, as it "destroys" my clipboard everytime, when just "selecting" something, unusable setting for me. 

So IMHO this is still a bug, hopefully worth fixing.

Comment 2 MichaelOF 2018-12-23 15:01:53 UTC

Opened this small but painful bug months ago, unfortunately not a single comment. Is kclipboard abandoned?

Comment 3 MichaelOF 2018-12-23 16:01:52 UTC

Asked today also again in #kde. 

Got a hint from user JanKusanagi:

xclip has an option "-selection", and with parameter "clipboard" (in my case "xlip -r -selection clipboard" EVERYTHING works like a charme.

So not a bug, not even an issue with kclipboard, solely xclip.