Clipboard auto-save

[iomari]

greetings, desperately trying to figure out why my clipboard copies as soon s I select text even though the setting for that is unchecked. Kubuntu 22.04, Plasma 5.25.5, Framework 5.98.0 kernel 5.15.0-47

[claydoh]

White text is hard to read


Anyhooo, saving Klipper's history is not related to how the actual Linux text selection and the clipboard works. It IS a bit confusing.

Check Klipper's settings again, and look at the extra info provided.
You probably want to un-check the first option to "keep the selection and the clipboard the same"

[iomari]

Sorry about the white text but as I'm typing this,the text is black on a dark grey background which is hard to read.
Anyway, the setting "keep the selection and the clipboard the same" has been unchecked, checked and unchecked many times from the beginning with no affect.

[claydoh]

Look at the Text Selection option, then. Set it to 'Only When Explicitly copied" and see if that helps any.

What makes things confusing, and creates the need (somewhat) for these odd settings for Plasma's Klipper tool) is how copy and past can work in Linux

Far too much info here:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
and here
https://specifications.freedesktop.o...rds-latest.txt
and here, if you are somehow not bored to tears, or your eyes have not glazed over after the first paragraph of the first link, like I was
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/pos...OSTING-en.html

tl;dr: there is more than one 'clipboard' in xorg. This is completely unrelated to Plasma, or the Klipper tool actually.
highlighted text is always copied to a temporary buffer for quick pasting elsewhere via the middle mouse button. Klipper just adds a way to synchronize this with the 'regular' clipboard (ctrl-c/ctrl-v) for potential use via the middle mouse button, and save things to its history if desired.


For me 20+ years ago, this specific feature was one of those Must Haves when I was still dual-booting Windows and Linux that helped push me away from Windows. Though I completely understand how it can eff up some people's workflow, and how it all works is about as clear as the water in Jackson Mississippi.