Comment 96 for bug 213494

This fix:

sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper

Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME
# Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team
# bla bla bla
# License along with this library; if not, write to the
# Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#

import time # <-- This line is new
time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it did not help

import gobject
gobject.threads_init()

import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome
import getopt, sys
from os.path import *

Worked for me, I had it set to 30, and then started crashing it regularly at startup. I upped it to 90 seconds, and that is working now. I also went through a bunch of stuff in my startup and eliminated bunch of things that shouldn't have been starting anyway.

Shane