Clipboard manager on KDE and regex

[eera5607]

Hi. I'm a new user of Kubuntu. I was looking around the features and I noticed that Kubuntu includes a clipboard manager. I also noticed that I can set actions according to a previously matched regex. I would like to know if it is posible to configure the clipboard to ignore an entry that matches a predefined regex so it does not appear or be kept in the clipboard.

Thanks.

[jlittle]

I looked at this and thought, there'll be a dbus message you could invoke. I found

qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardContents

but it doesn't work, nothing happens.

qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory

works, but it hits all the clipboard entries. Several other dbus messages do work. Maybe if you want to muck about with scripting:

• extract all the clipboard with qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardHistoryMenu
• clear it
• then load it back up without the first, one at a time, with qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.setClipboardContents

[woodsmoke]

GREAT POSTS!!

so...could "kubuntu developers" ... put a GUI on top of this and have it be something to separate Kubuntu from other distros and KDE per se?

if it was possible...

I would send the OP a gift card to Amazon through paypal.

thanks to the OP and thanks to jlittle.

woodsmoke

[jlittle]

so...could "kubuntu developers" ... put a GUI on top of this and have it be something to separate Kubuntu from other distros and KDE per se?

It would surely be simpler to make the org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardContents work.

[woodsmoke]

jlittle

I am just an old hardware kinda guy ... you are the smart one... so...yeah...

woodkindastupidsmoke

[eera5607]

Thank you @jlittle . I will try that approach. What I basically want to do is keep using the default clipboard manager (now I know is called Klipper) but I don't like, as an example, passwords copied from KeePass to appear and get stored on the clipboard manager. That is why I use this regex on clipboard managers:

^(?=(?:\w*\W+)+\w*$)(?=(?:\S*?[A-Z]){2,}\S*?$)(?=(?:\S*?[a-z])+\S*?$)(?!.*?\.\w{2,5}$).{25,90}$

That ensures that it will ignore strings from 25 to 90 characters with at least 1 lower case, 2 upper case, one or more symbols, does not include spaces, does not end on .com or .net or .whatever and it's not an URL or a PATH like home/User/Whatever. That regex includes like 95% of my passwords. For example on Clipit I just add that regex to the exclude list and that's it. That's what I was trying to do on Kubuntu.