how to quit klipper?

[Hans-Peter Kunzle]

I am running SuSE 8.0 both on a desktop and also on a
laptop computer. For some reason, when I click on the
klipper icon on the KDE panel I get a menu that does
include Quit on one computer, but not on the other.
This is a problem because klipper is not compatible
with the Mathematica cut and paste functions and needs
to be shut off.

Is there a way to restore the full menu for klipper or perhaps
prevent it from starting at all (without reinstalling
the entire kde package)?

Hans

[Hans-Peter Kunzle]

System User wrote:

> Hans-Peter Kunzle wrote:
>
>
>>I am running SuSE 8.0 both on a desktop and also on a
>>laptop computer. For some reason, when I click on the
>>klipper icon on the KDE panel I get a menu that does
>>include Quit on one computer, but not on the other.
>>This is a problem because klipper is not compatible
>>with the Mathematica cut and paste functions and needs
>>to be shut off.
>>
>
>

> hmm...strangeness...

>
>
>>Is there a way to restore the full menu for klipper or perhaps
>>prevent it from starting at all (without reinstalling
>>the entire kde package)?
>>
>>Hans
>
>

> You could try several things:
>
> 1. click on the klipper icon, go to "configure klipper"
> the click on "actions" tab and get rid of the rule that
> is being activated when you choose something.
>
This I have tried but it did not solve the problem (i.e.
in MMA I could still not cut and paste).

> 2. click on the klipper icon, go to the "shortcut" tab and
> see what shortcut is defined for 'enable/disable' clipboard
> actions (on my KDE3.1.2 its Alt+Ctrl+X)
>
> 3. You could manually kill klipper then "save session" when
> logging out from KDE...
>
How do I do that since there is no Quit menu? Also, as far as
I can see, klipper does not show up as process under 'ps'.

> I admit they're all indirect ways but it's pretty surprising that
> the quit menu item is missing.
>
> -su

I have observed that the problem is in my user's configuration
files. When I create a new user it comes up with the proper
klipper menu. Although I looked through many of the files in
$HOME/.kde I could not find anything that solves the problem.
I suppose I could become a new user, move all my stuff over and
start from scratch reconfiguring the kde desktop -- but I was hoping
there would be a simpler way.

hpk

[baskitcaise]

Hans-Peter Kunzle wrote:

>
> I have observed that the problem is in my user's configuration
> files. When I create a new user it comes up with the proper
> klipper menu. Although I looked through many of the files in
> $HOME/.kde I could not find anything that solves the problem.
> I suppose I could become a new user, move all my stuff over and
> start from scratch reconfiguring the kde desktop -- but I was hoping
> there would be a simpler way.
>
> hpk

while in konqueror enable View>Show hidden files, in your Home dir you will
see a .kde folder goto .kde>share>config and open klipperrc with your
favourite text editor you should see something like:-

$Version]
update_info=klipperrc.upd:25082001,klipperrc.upd:kde3.1

[General]
AutoStart=true
ClipboardData=\n,games,root,local,:/usr/local/games,usr/local/games,linux_installer.sh
SynchronizeClipboards=false

Just cahnge the line Autostart=true to false, should stop it starting up

HTH

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water.
N.Wales, UK.
Email is spam trap try baskitcaise at gmx dot co dot uk

[Hans-Peter Kunzle]

Thanks to both of you for the advice!

Something on my system must have happened because ps
only produced:

/home/hpk> ps auxw | grep klipper
hpk 1237 0.0 0.1 1636 596 pts/1 S 15:33 0:00 grep klipper

So klipper had no process running -- but still messed up
the Mathematica cut and paste.

Also, while I had a .klipperrc file in my .kde directory
it did not contain an AutoStart= line.

My mistake probably was that once after a new installation
I had copied over an old .kde directory rather than starting
configuring with ControlCenter. This worked quite well in
general but may have got me in trouble this time.

hpk

> /home/dan> ps -ef | grep klipper
> dan 2082 1 0 01:31 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: klipper
> dan 2872 2843 0 01:52 pts/2 00:00:00 grep klipper
> /home/dan> kill 2082
>
> the above worked for me.
>
> Try following baskitcaise's procedure or else from a shell
> just go (in your home directory) to:
>
> .kde/share/config/klipperrc
>
> and modify the "AutoStart".
>
> For reference here's what the klipperrc file on my system
> looks like:
>
> [$Version]

> update_info=klipperrc.upd:25082001,klipperrc.upd:kde3.1
>
> [General]
> AutoStart=true

> URLGrabberEnabled=true

>
>
>
>>>I admit they're all indirect ways but it's pretty surprising that
>>>the quit menu item is missing.
>>>
>>>-su
>>
>>I have observed that the problem is in my user's configuration
>>files. When I create a new user it comes up with the proper
>>klipper menu. Although I looked through many of the files in
>>$HOME/.kde I could not find anything that solves the problem.
>>I suppose I could become a new user, move all my stuff over and
>>start from scratch reconfiguring the kde desktop -- but I was hoping
>>there would be a simpler way.
>>
>>hpk
>
>

> sometime when I get into such situations, i also rename the .kde
> directory to something else, restart kde and just copy over the
> my stuff into the new .kde directory that is created.
> (just be sure that you don't delete your .kde directory as it
> contains many settings and sometimes saved things like news
> group articles from knode etc).
>
> -su
>