Bug 427721

Summary: System wide copy paste
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: medin <med.medin.2014>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.19.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description medin 2020-10-14 20:52:21 UTC 
It would be practical and preferable to keep the copied items even if the source application is closed.
Many times I copy files from Dolphin then close it and when I try to paste them on my Desktop it fails because the copied items are deleted after Dolphin is closed.
This happens also when I copy some code from Kate and close it, and the paste operation fails on another IDE like Eclipse or VSCode.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0
Qt Version: 5.15.1
Kernel Version: 5.4.67-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-10-16 16:12:39 UTC 
Indeed it would. That's why Klipper was created: it does exactly this! :) Have you, by any chance, disabled or uninstalled Klipper?
Comment 2 medin 2020-10-16 16:33:20 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Indeed it would. That's why Klipper was created: it does exactly this! :)
> Have you, by any chance, disabled or uninstalled Klipper?

Yeah I disabled it because it doesn't have automatic paste upon selection so I use CopyQ instead of it.
I didn't know it has this system wide feature.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-10-16 19:39:10 UTC 
Well, if you disable the software that provides this feature, you won't have it. :) You'll need to re-enable Klipper to have your paste data persist after an app is closed, or else ask the developers of CopyIQ for them to add the feature.