I am well familiar with the dangers of an x-windows clipboard “manager” interfering with the copy-paste operations of LibreOffice, for example as detailed in Copy/Paste clipboard issues LibreOffice Calc However, this problem appears to have surfaced in xfce4 version 20.3 and I cannot find or figure out how to disable the external clipboard management. In particular, I have removed the xfce4-clipman-plugin entirely from my system, but the problem persists. Does anyone know how to (or whether it is possible) to configure xfce4 v20.3 to leave LibreOffice’s clipboard selections in peace? Thanks for any guidance, and I will of course also ask on the xfce4 forum and post any answer I get back here.
From xfce 20.3 - LibreOffice detrimental clipboard interaction / Desktop / Xfce Forums, this situation can be resolved by making sure that xfsettingsd runs with the environment variable setting XFSETTINGSD_NO_CLIPBOARD=1.
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