CristianHenzel
clipit completely killed my clipboard functionality
I am using Debian Sid/unstable (clipit_1.4.4-2).
clipit got installed as a dependency of lxqt which was installed as a dependency of task-lxqt-desktop.
After that I got a completely non-functional clipboard (even though I'm not currently using lxqt-desktop).
I literally cannot copy/paste in any way; even "middle button pasting" is not working.
Another symptom: in gnome-terminal selection vanishes in a very short time (<1s.).
I took some time to pinpoint the problem, but:
Apparently clipit is unconditionally run at startup (it has a rather low task-id) and killing it "cures" the problem.
Why are you reporting this problem to Clipit upstream?
You should have reported the bug against task-lxqt-desktop for dropping dependency on clipit or changing default clipboard manager.
Also be aware of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908797
Wouldn't you be better with Debian "testing"? "sid" a.k.a. "unstable" is, well, unstable, unsurprisingly, as name suggests...
Uhm... I don't quite follow your reasoning.
My opinion is clipit is buggy, so I reported to maintainers of the package, in case they are interested.
The link You sent confirms my opinion.
Of course the "easy way out" is just to drop it, either personally (I already did) or advising Debian maintainers to remove it.
FYI: I'm on Sid since more than 20 years and I'm happy with it; I want a "rolling" distribution and I'm prepared to deal with minor "unstabilities" like this. Problem was actually solved (for me) even before I opened this Issue.
I also have experienced the same problem running Fedora 29 with either the Gnome DE or i3. Anytime clipit is running, the selection and primary clipboards ceased to function. My clipit version is clipit-1.4.4-3.fc29.x86_64.
I did not have any issue with the clipit version in use under debian stable a few days ago before I switched to Fedora 29.
Killing the clipit process as @mcondarelli did allowed the standard X clipboard functions to work again.
This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640765 and https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt/commit/99d1d57875c5672a1b22e6b8b10786f4ff5cea0b should fix this issue, i.e. should be fixed in 1.4.5 .
A detailed explanation is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640765#c11