Multiple Instances of the 'Clipboard' Widget

[Terry Coles]

Since I upgraded my desktop machine to Kubuntu 22.10, I have had this extremely annoying bug. Initially, the 'klipper' icon in the system tray was not present. AFAICR, this had always been present in previous versions (Maybe I explicitly installed it many years ago and it had always been carried over during upgrades). Anyway it was found MIA.

Using the 'Add Widgets' menu item, revealed by right-clicking in the system tray, I got it back, but I now have no less than 6 instances running (five in the system tray and one 'somewhere', see screenshot at https://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Kubuntu_22_10_Desktop.png, where there is apparently 6 Clipboard Widgets installed, but only five visible). More seem to appear each time I boot the machine. As I understand it, this widget is now called 'Clipboard', but its behaviour at least is similar to the old 'klipper' (when it isn't promiscuously installing itself multiple times.

Is this a bug, or have I misconfigured my system?

[Terry Coles (lp-hadrian-way)]

This may be irrelevant, but I have noticed another error that I have not seen before.

I found that the audio player Clementine appeared a bit buggy since I installed 22.10 and after a bit of research I found that it was no longer supported. I therefore removed it and installed strawberry. This works fine, but I cannot make it remember which Activity I want it to start in; it always starts in whatever Activity I was in when I shut down the previous session.

Looking at the preferences file for plasma, I see that the modified time is six minutes ago (when I rebooted) and not four minutes ago (when I moved strawberry from my Games Activity to my Multimedia Activity.)

(I initially raised this as a question on 'Answers' but have yet to receive any helpful responses.)

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[Terry Coles (lp-hadrian-way)]

I was asked by the bug bot to enter the package that contains this bug. Before I raised this as a Question, I had already tried to enter it as a bug, but was unable to determine the package name with more granularity than 'full-kde' There seemed to be no relevant package containing the string 'plasma' installed.

I then ran xprop:

terry@OptiPlex:~$ WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "plasmashell", "plasmashell"

but when I tried to enter 'plasmashell' as the package name I got 'There is no package named 'plasmashell' published in Ubuntu.'

[Terry Coles (lp-hadrian-way)]

Since there had been no feedback on this, I decided to do a clean installation of 22.10 instead of relying on the upgrade that I did last year. When this was complete, I found exactly the same problem.

I then decided to do another clean installation of 22.10; this time all on the same partition, instead of my usual setup of OS on sda and /home on sdb. This installed OK, but the same bug was apparent.

This problem doesn't seem to be confined to the one system. I have now fallen back on my laptop which I rarely use these days, but is also at 22.10. It shows the same problem.

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

I cannot reproduce this on Jammy 24.04.4, is this still an issue after upgrading to a supported release? Jammy +. Also the mediaplayer activities issue needs to be filed seperately under the kactivitymanagerd package. Thanks

[Terry Coles (terryjcoles)]

Scarlett,

I must confess, I had forgotten about this report (it is now well over a year since I posted it), with no real response.

At some time since then both bugs went away, I presumably when I upgraded to 23.04 or 23.10, but I don't actually remember. At the time I probably lived with the Clipboard issue and I know I reverted to Clementine, since that is what I'm using now.

Sorry for forgetting to follow this up.