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Gamma_of_pi

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Registered: 2021-03-03

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[SOLVED] XFCE clipman does not work anymore

Clipman worked OKish for over a year and now suddenly its icon is grayed out and nothing gets copied to it (maybe only once in a blue moon for unknown reason). This is only the case with one of my users. I created new user and it all works fine there. I  tried copying config files form the new user home directory but nothing works. I'm also confused why are there two ways to add clipman to the panel: one is directly from Panel Preferences > Item > Add and another is from Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart (and for some reason if you add it the second way it has a different icon, probably one of them is not affected by an icon theme?) . If you try to add them both then they run into conflict and you get error messages. Is there a good reason why there should be two ways to add it? I doubt but that's another topic I guess. Anyways I have no idea what to do or how to diagnose my problem.

I don't exactly remember what happened when it broke, I remember copying something to it that broke it.

And btw I saw this thread but it didn't help: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222262

Last edited by Gamma_of_pi (2022-11-02 12:34:54)

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toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE clipman does not work anymore

Is the plugin inadvertently disabled? Right-click the plugin to check.

As to why there are two ways to start it, its so that it can also work on non-Xfce systems. I find adding the plugin to the panel works best in Xfce.

Gamma_of_pi

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Registered: 2021-03-03

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE clipman does not work anymore

I feel terribly stupid now. It worked. I spent hours trying to find a responsible config file. Why didn't mv xfce4 xfce4.back from  /home/myuser/.config/  work, where's the right config stored for the panel?

Last edited by Gamma_of_pi (2022-10-31 20:25:44)

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toz

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE clipman does not work anymore

where's the right config stored for the panel?

The settings are stored using xfconf. The settings are stored in memory and later written to disk. The clipman history is saved in ~/.cache/xfce4. If saving/restoring xfce directories/settings make sure you are not logged into Xfce and that the xfconf process is not running (seems to have some persistence even after you log out).