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BaDaHe

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Registered: 2025-05-18

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Using DISCOVER to remove CLIPBOARD

KDE Plasma desktop
I much prefer CopyQ as my clipboard manager, but when the default Clipboard is also running they step on one-another's toes.
I tried using Discover to remove Clipboard but got the error DEPENDENCY RESOLUTION FAILED - Waa?
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BaDaHe
Australia
Mon 23-Jun-25  16:41

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q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Using DISCOVER to remove CLIPBOARD

Plasma "klipper" cannot be removed as it's a part of "plasma-workspace" package. Plasma-workspace depends and is an integral part of Q4OS Plasma desktop, thus it couldn't be removed without removing the complete Plasma desktop.

Why do you need to remove the clipboard? It can be easily disabled if you don't want it to run at startup. Just edit "/etc/xdg/autostart/klipper.desktop" and remove "KDE" from "OnlyShowIn=" line.

BaDaHe

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Registered: 2025-05-18

Posts: 7

Re: Using DISCOVER to remove CLIPBOARD

Thanks for the response and extra information.

The first time around I removed just the KDE from the “OnlyShowIn=” line, so I changed it
from “OnlyShowIn=KDE;”
to “OnlyShowIn=;”
And then I rebooted.

Klipper was then only in the SHOW HIDDEN ICONS area. Until the first time that I copied data, when it sprung back in to view on the bottom line of the screen along with CopyQ.

So on my second editing attempt I removed KDE; so that the line now said:
“OnlyShowIn=”
And again rebooted.

Copied some text, but the above scenario was repeated.

This is the way that lines 179 to 194 look at the moment:
Exec=klipper
Icon=klipper
Type=Application
X-DocPath=klipper/index.html
Terminal=false
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.klipper
X-KDE-UniqueApplet=true
X-KDE-autostart-condition=klipperrc:General:AutoStart:false
# Tell AppStream generators not to merge info in this file so Discover and other
# software centers don't show two Klipper entries
X-AppStream-Ignore=true
OnlyShowIn=
Categories=Qt;KDE;Utility;X-KDE-Utilities-Desktop;
Comment=A cut & paste history utility

BaDaHe
NSW Australia
Tue 24-Jun-25  10:46