Is there a way to uninstall klipper fully and replace it with something else?

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Klipper doesn’t paste the images most of the time and I want to try using other clipboard managers but can’t remove Klipper as it’s not it’s own package.

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What do you mean by “doesn’t paste images”? Which distro and KDE version?

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Arch, KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
I have to spam CTRL+V to paste taken screenshots in apps, pasting into dolphin doesn’t even save the image.

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If those screenshots were taken with spectacle, I assume you’ve set spectacle to copy to clipboard?

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klipper is so small it isn’t worth uninstalling, however - doing so is more dependent on your distribution and package manager than it is on kde software or plasma desktop. Likely it’s part of a metapackage.

I personally use CopyQ as my ‘advanced’ manager, but klipper for simple tasks… so I set Meta_V to pull up CopyQ which has many notes in tabs etc, then Meta_B pulls up klipper.

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Could be Plasma 6 issue, I don’t know. But mentioned things work for me on KDE 5.27.10 & Tuxedo OS (almost Kubuntu)

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Yep. Just set the clipboard icon visibility to disabled in the notification area (tray), and klipper won’t load, then you can use an alternative (I use CopyQ and it’s excellent)

You don’t need to uninstall it fully, just disable it.

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I disabled it already but I think that just disables the menu itself not klipper

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Yes it do have spectacle set to copy to clipboard

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I tried using copy with removing shortcuts in edit for copy,cut and paste and replacing them with copy command shorctus in system settings but didn’t really work :sweat_smile:

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It disables klipper

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Is there a way I could change the normal cut,copy,paste shortcuts to instead use copyq for pasting, cutting and copying?

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CopyQ monitors the clipboard when it is running, so it is already used for cut/copy. If you intend to use it all the time, create an Autostart entry for it.

If you want to open the CopyQ window to paste from copyq’s history, then you can create a shortcut within the app for X11, or for Wayland, a new Command Shortcut in KDE.

Make the command copyq triggerGlobalShortcut "Show main window under mouse cursor"

The documentation covers this in more detail for X11 Keyboard — CopyQ documentation and Wayland Known Issues — CopyQ documentation (I do recommend the Wayland Support command discussed there)

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I have tried making a command shortcut for Meta +V to toggle copyq but it doesn’t seem to open or show it for some reason

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adding QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb as an env into the autostart thing fixed copyq toggle not working but copyq cut|paste|copy still doesn’t work but that’s not a problem cause of the inbuilt kde shortcuts still working.

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And now it seems every time I try to paste a popup shows up requesting for remote control

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I have experienced this as well, for me spectacle copying an image to the clipboard tends to fail quite frequently. I haven’t been able to figure out the cause. But you can simply brute force your way through until it works.

Mar 15 03:24:21 camelot systemd[1615]: Starting Spectacle screenshot capture utility...
Mar 15 03:24:22 camelot systemd[1615]: Started Spectacle screenshot capture utility.
Mar 15 03:24:22 camelot spectacle[223624]: libva error: /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
Mar 15 03:24:22 camelot spectacle[223624]: kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
Mar 15 03:24:22 camelot spectacle[223624]: kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128"

This is the only output from journalctl but this same output happens even when it works. I have suspicion that this is something screwy with clipboards and xwayland since I most commonly notice the issue when posting to Discord.

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I had issues with pasting a pic I took with spectacle to discord, it mostly pasted an empty picture and I had to spam a lot and remove the empty pictures. Pasting into dophin to save the image was impossible as it didn’t save it cause I think of the same reason discord kept getting empty images pasted in. Idk if it’s an issue with spectacle or klipper.

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Hi - if the main issue is getting screenshots from Spectacle to copy to the clipboard correctly, it’s possible that’s related to something in Spectacle instead of the clipboard tools themselves. There are a few recent bug reports with folks indicating some similar-sounding issues:

Depending on which situation matches your experience, it might be worth adding yourself to the CC list on the corresponding bug report, and adding a comment if there’s anything you’ve observed on your device that isn’t already captured :slight_smile:

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