Bug 470947

Summary: [Enhancement] Make Klipper standalone application
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: AvidSeeker <avidseeker7>
Component: Clipboard widget & pop-upAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description AvidSeeker 2023-06-12 18:49:33 UTC 
Many users don't feel comfortable having a program in the background saving  their clipboard content. There were many forum posts asking for a way to uninstall or completely disable Klipper. E.g: this [post](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1032985/remove-klipper-from-kubuntu) says:

> "Klipper" is part of the plasma-workspace package and cannot be uninstalled without removing all of KDE.

The current way to disable Klipper is through `System Tray settings > General > Extra Items`, but even with that, `pgrep klipper` shows that Klipper still runs in the background. Second problem is user needs to switch to Plasma session just to disable it.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2023-06-12 20:15:03 UTC 
Surely you're asking for it to not exist as a standalone application, that's what you're seeing in your pgrep. 

In either case, we are not making such a change based on this reasoning.
Comment 2 AvidSeeker 2023-06-13 00:07:02 UTC 
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)
> Surely you're asking for it to not exist as a standalone application, that's
> what you're seeing in your pgrep. 

It's a standalone application in the sense that's it's a separate binary, but not in the sense that it's separate from Plasma shell. It comes as a package, and it cannot be uninstalled without removing other components.

> In either case, we are not making such a change based on this reasoning.

Then at least provide a way to completely disable Klipper.
Comment 3 AvidSeeker 2024-08-08 05:45:43 UTC 
It's not only my request. Google search of "disable klipper" returns +700 results.
- https://discuss.kde.org/t/12526/52
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1032985
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