Cannot run any Clipboard Managers in my system

Liam

3/25/24, 1:59 PM

I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while now, but for some reason I can’t get any clipboard manager to work on my system. Everything else works fine, like installing and using new apps, but clipboard managers just don’t. I used to have Clipman and it worked great. But then one day it just stopped working. It disappeared from my panel and whenever I try to launch it manually with xfce4-clipman, I get a bunch of errors.

** (xfce4-clipman:4446): WARNING **: 19:13:41.327: Unable to register GApplication: An object is already exported for the interface org.gtk.Application at /org/xfce/clipman

(xfce4-clipman:4446): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 19:13:41.327: g_application_get_is_remote: assertion 'application->priv->is_registered' failed

(xfce4-clipman:4446): GLib-WARNING **: 19:13:41.327: g_set_application_name() called multiple times

** (xfce4-clipman:4446): WARNING **: 19:14:42.058: Status Icon is not embedded

(xfce4-clipman:4446): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:14:42.059: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

I have tried various solutions online to fix Clipman, such as changing the autostart session, using killall, removing and reinstalling all the packages related to it, using pkill and rm ~/.local/share/xfce4/clipman/history. However, none of them worked. I also installed Clipit but it didn’t work either. When I launched Clipit manually, it showed the following errors

** (clipit:4415): WARNING **: 19:12:53.754: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>H' failed!


** (clipit:4415): WARNING **: 19:12:53.754: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>A' failed!


** (clipit:4415): WARNING **: 19:12:53.754: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>P' failed!


** (clipit:4415): WARNING **: 19:12:53.754: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>F' failed!


** (clipit:4415): WARNING **: 19:12:53.754: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>O' failed!

and went on....

I also tried Diodon but it wouldn’t launch at all, neither from the terminal nor by clicking on it.

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David

3/25/24, 2:19 PM

Are either of these two apps known to work with your unstated version of Ubuntu and the DE you are using?

Liam

3/25/24, 4:15 PM

The versions are 22.04 LTS and xfce is 4.16 and I'm pretty sure they are compatible with these

guiverc

3/25/24, 10:18 PM

The question is missing release details (*this is a Question and Answer site and not a forum, please add additional details or changes to your question*). Xubuntu/Xfce has a working clipboard; but you mention Ubuntu so I wonder if your system was a Ubuntu one where you added parts of Xfce but not all of Xubuntu/Xfce thus your issue but it's unclear to me from your question (https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/jammy/release/xubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.manifest is what is included). I'd look for clues in what changes were made the session before your clipman stopped working (ie. logs)

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