Clipit Wll Not Run - LM 18 and LM 18.1 KDE

[Tom Sfer]

Clipit will not run on either LM 18 KDE or LM 18.1 KDE. Installed Clipit from Terminal (or Synaptic Package Manager). It fails to start, period. I get a mouse busy indicator when I start from Utilities -> Clipit. But the application never loads.

It was fine with version LM KDE 17.3. It also works on LM Cinnamon 18 and LM Cinnamon 18.1 as well. I suspect something with the new plasma desktop on KDE 18. But have not delved into it further.

Clipit Version – 1.4.2-1ubuntu1

System: KDE Plasma 5.8.5 (Qt 5.6.1) Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A99FX PRO R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends v: 2501 date: 04/07/2014
CPU: Octa core AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB
         flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 64214
         clock speeds: max: 4000 MHz 1: 2100 MHz 2: 4000 MHz 3: 1400 MHz 4: 2100 MHz 5: 2100 MHz
         6: 1400 MHz 7: 1400 MHz 8: 1400 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1200@59.95hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD OLAND (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Memory: 1168.1/15944.0MB (16 GB)

[Tom Sfer (zanzibar27)]

UPDATED INFO: This is on Linux Mint KDE 18.1

1) Clipit will NOT run from Utilities -> Clipit when installed. Busy mouse cursor, then nothing.
   Ksysguard shows clipit process is running. Kill it.
2) Some work arounds... a) Install clipit. b) From Terminal run 'usr/bin/clipit'.
   It will run and load in system tray and popup "do you want clipit to save history?" Say YES.
   This creates "~/.config/clipit/clipitrc" as expected. BUT...
    First error “GTK-WARNING ... adwaita”. Install package 'gnome-themes-standard' to fix this.
    Second error message from terminal "WARNING **: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>A' failed!"
     To eliminate this one open clipit "preferences" from system tray. Redefine as '<Ctrl><Alt>X'
3) Exit clipit from system tray.
4) Re-run from terminal and both errors are gone and it loads in system tray. STILL cannot execute
   from the menu.
5) Clipit will also run if you edit KDE applications (right click on start icon). Find clipit and
   "run as different user"... namely root. This results in slight delay in reboot and I only did it
   in playing around.

I also tried auto-starting clipit with a startup script and a variety of other things but can not get it to run any which way except from a terminal window. Bash script I made that runs fine will not load on startup, even when clipit shows running in ksysguard. Perhaps a timing issue?

I have abandoned it for now and am using Klipper. But I miss the history edit function on clipit.

[Tom Sfer (zanzibar27)]

SMALL UPDATE: First error “GTK-WARNING ... adwaita”. Install package 'gnome-themes-standard' as described above.

THEN Switch cursor theme in Settings->Workspace Theme->Cursor Theme to 'Adwaita' to eliminate this first error when run from terminal.