Is the clipboard SUPPOSED to retain its contents between sessions?

I had a bit of a surprise when I logged in this morning. My Clipboard still contained the URL of a page I’d copied and pasted last night before logging off. (Lucky I live alone as it was a page I’d have been a little embarrassed by if anyone had seen I’d been there).

Is this supposed to happen? I can make sure it’s cleared using wl-copy, so it’s not really a problem. I’m just curious.

Two things, you probably have the session saved and loaded after reboot, disable that behavior in System Settings, search for “session” and select to start with a new session.
Also Klipper has settings for clipboard history, check it in the system tray, right click it and check its options.

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You should be able to configure the clipboard not to store clippings across sessions by right-clicking on the system tray icon & selecting “Configure Clipboard”. In the General tab, make sure “Save history across desktop sessions” is not checked:

Your clipboard data is stored in the ~/.local/share/klipper/ directory.

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Spot on! Thanks.
I’d always assumed it wouldn’t be kept. Evidently this is just the first time I’ve noticed.

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