Trying to understand Klipper

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I think I’m starting to get the hang of Klipper, but there are a couple of things that don’t go with my workstyle at all. Either that or I’m missing a number of possible solutions.

  1. There is a shortcut that says “Show clipboard items at mouse position”. Is there a way to have (or create) one that says “Show clipboard items at cursor position”? (I should note here that I can’t code my way out of a bathtub.) Most of my work is writing, and the mouse could be off the screen, or in a margin, or having a beer somewhere. I don’t need a pop-up there, I need it at the cursor.
  2. Is there a way of applying the concept of “paste as plain text”? I did do a search on this board and found that it had been at least briefly discussed some time ago, but I didn’t find if there had been any resolution.

I’m using X11. I gather from discussions I’ve seen that Wayland has wounded or disabled a lot of the currently available clipboards.

Thanks for any advice and/or suggestions.

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Maybe but not easily and possibly application dependent.

The display server draws the mouse cursor and as thus knows where it is.
The input cursor is drawn by the application (if at all) and is unknown to the system.

Whether this is feasible will likely depend on whether this kind of information is covered somewhere, e.g. display server extension protocols or accessibility APIs.

I usually use CTRL+SHIFT+V to bypass the target application’s format selection for text

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Thanks, I appreciate the answer. It sounds to me like Klipper would be more oriented toward copying graphics and large chunks of text rather than my specialty of words that need to be repeated a lot. In general, KDE makes Windows act like a dinosaur trying to win the Kentucky Derby, so I’m happy.