[Post-Install] X11 keep the selection and clipboard the same not working

[jlittle]

Just release upgraded to 25.04, using X11, and the clipboard has become flaky, breaking a few scripts. The setting "keep the selection and clipboard the same" is ticked.
Sometimes:

• the selection and clipboard are different (f.ex. middle click paste is different to ctrl-shift-v in a konsole)
• the clipboard switches to something several entries down in the clipboard history, and sometimes even after clearing the clipboard history
• using xsel -i makes the clipboard blank
• applications, say firefox, seem not to be told that the clipboard has changed

Any ideas?

[claydoh]

I have the exact opposite situation in Wayland since Plasma 6.4.1, as I keep the mouse selection and the clipboard+saved items separate (seletion+middle-mouse-paste and ctrl-c+ctrl-v/meta-v etc, are different), and that seems to stop working. I can't select any item from the history to paste with crtl-v/meta-v, and can only paste the selection. I have had theis for a few days here on KDE neon's 6.4.1

Last night I reset Klipper to to default settings mainly to compare the two configs, then deleted all the related files and directories in ~/.config/klipperrc and ~/.local/share/klipper, and it *seems* to be working after I powered on this morning and I reconfigured things the way I want them.

So maybe a bum set of configs?


I am not spying any bugs overly similar to either one of our issues.

OT:
But I did see this which I personally will find useful if it is implemented:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma..._requests/5563

[jlittle]

...reset Klipper to to default settings ... delete all the related files and directories in ~/.config/klipperrc and ~/.local/share/klipper...

Thank you, I'll give that a try. Eventually I found the google fu to find a dbus command to set the clipboard:

qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.setClipboardContents "lorem ipsum"

Maybe changing my scripts from xsel and xclip to the above might be a good idea, as that should work with Wayland.