There is no way. This is little bit embarrassing because I always disable KDE clippers since KDE 3x. I think KDE developer should think from the user side. Clipboard is mostly useless, and of course, consumes your RAM.

I personally think it's the right decision, actually. The X11 clipboard in its raw form is just useless and weird, since you always lose clipboard contents when the application it comes from quits. I don't think any system in 2016 should ever present this weird behaviour to the user, not even optionally.

Clipboard being "mostly useless", well, I'd guess most other people would disagree
RAM usage is a moot point, 10 clipboard entries are typically something like few kilobytes of RAM. Your wallpaper uses thounsands of times that amount.

Nice one Stéphane ANCELOT. I really needed this because it was slowing down my cut/copy & paste work in Remmina RDP.

There should really be an option to disable this klipper widget.

nektarios wrote:

luebking wrote:Privacy != Security - it doesn't really qualify for a CVE.

You should of course mention your privacy concerns as trigger and valid reason to be able to effectively disable the feature.

@Wolfgang - doesn't seem to work here (at least not for a plasmashell restart)

Yes that's what I decided too, it is privacy not security, I'll change the title of my bug. For archiving purposes here it is: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352171

Thanks.

I use a password manager called passpack. In order for it to function, you must copy and paste passwords. So for me this is a security concern.

You can disable it in the system tray settings.
See earlier posts here and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352171#c15.

As I wrote already, this does completely turn it off here (i.e. it will not even be loaded any more, and if you ever enable it again the clipboard will be empty), and the follow-up comments in the bug report also confirm that it works.
But you need to logout/login, it wasn't unloaded in the running session last time I tried.

wolfi323 wrote:You can disable it in the system tray settings.
See earlier posts here and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352171#c15.

As I wrote already, this does completely turn it off here (i.e. it will not even be loaded any more, and if you ever enable it again the clipboard will be empty), and the follow-up comments in the bug report also confirm that it works.
But you need to logout/login, it wasn't unloaded in the running session last time I tried.

Thanks that worked (: