Bug 410288

Summary:	No clear way of removing Klipper from KDE session
Product:	[Unmaintained] klipper	Reporter:	Nicolas Girard <girard.nicolas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	girard.nicolas, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.16.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Nicolas Girard 2019-07-27 18:23:24 UTC

Removing Klipper from one's KDE session is a legitimate need, e.g. for security reasons as discussed here (1), or in order to use another clipboard manager instead.

Currently, nowhere in KDE's system settings, Klipper's documentation, nor Klipper menus, a clear way of doing so is provided.

As indicated in (2), removing Klipper can be achieved by unchecking "Clipboard" in "System Tray settings > Additional Entries" ; but by doing this the user is let unsure whether
- Klipper does not appear in the systray, *but* is still running in the background ;
- Klipper won't be running after restarted the session ;
- Klipper is no longer running at all

This is clearly a usability issue, which has been bothering people since at least 2003 (3).

(1) https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=128086
(2) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352171#c15
(3) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.os.linux.suse/GFsc2xZHeuA

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-04-01 20:53:11 UTC

System tray applet > Configure > Clipboard list item > Select "Disabled" in the combobox.

When you do this, it's not running at all.