Is Klipper dead?

[megosdog]

Was playing around in Kubuntu 18.04 and decided to do a little experimenting and quickly discovered that Klipper is no longer to be found anywhere. Just the new clipboard plasma app. It's not a big deal if the project or app is dead. I'm just curious where it went to and if it's still around as it's an old favorite of mine and I wanted to play around with it a bit, despite it being hopelessly broken since 16.04.

[Snowhog]

I think it was last available in 14.04, and is pre-Plasma, so KDE4?

[megosdog]

Hmm, okay. I did find it in 16.04 (not natively installed, but still available), so I was kinda surprised to not find it in 18.04. Thus I was curious if they'd completely done away with it.

[Rog131]

Part of the plasma-workspace. There are two user interfaces for the Klipper: The old Klipper and the new Clipboard widget: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blo...ation-klipper/

[megosdog]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Klipper

Just found this while cruising around. Apparently it really did get EOL'ed. Oh well.

[chimak111]

On KDE neon,

$ which klipper
/usr/bin/klipper
$

As rog131 points out, it isn't a separate package anymore. It is now part of the borg.

$ apt policy klipper
klipper:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: (none)
 Version table:
$

Just out of curiosity, which aspect of its functionality is broken? Maybe the devs haven't noticed but could do something about it if a bug is filed.

[Rog131]

Klipper and Clipboard widget

Default

The default is the Clipboard widget

Klipper

Klipper can be started with the command 'klipper':



..to autostart the Klipper press Quit:




Double ?



The System Tray has configure options...





Difference

The Klipper has the option to use the qdbus...



Service 'org.kde.klipper' does not exist. (why?): https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=127184

There are other options:
- Replacement for Klipper? : https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=139302
- Command line access to Plasma clipboard: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...135553#p362672