Hi there,
TL;DR: How can I disable the clipboard history? (Manjaro Sway, x86_64)
I recently switched from i3 to sway (on 64 Bit - not ARM). I discovered (too late) that Manjaro Sway is using a clipboard history - and not only that it also persists this history on disk. That is as bad as it can get for passwords.
How can I disable the clipboard history? I didn’t find much about this. I stumbled across ‘cliphist’ (which is doing the persistence part) but wasn’t able to disable it.
I would be glad for every help. Thanks
Fabby
4 October 2021 08:12
2
Welcome to Manjaro!
Have you tried:
pamac remove --no-save cliphist
yet?
(I’m on KDE and don’t have cliphist
, so I can only point you in the right direction)
Hi Fabby,
thanks for the reply! Yes, I actually tried that but another package depends on that one:
$ sudo pamac remove --no-save cliphist
Preparing...
Checking dependencies...
To remove (2):
manjaro-sway-settings 1.0.0-1 (Depends On: cliphist) community
cliphist 0.1.0-1 manjaro-sway
Total removed size: 1,8 MB
Apply transaction ? [y/N]
Because ‘manjaro-sway-settings’ sounds rather important I decided not to remove that as well.
Fabby
4 October 2021 09:08
4
@Strit @spikerguy Is the manjaro-sway-settings
dependency on cliphist
a hard setting or a soft one? (I’m out of my league on ARM now)
Strit
4 October 2021 09:38
5
I don’t think we have that package in ARM. The OP is on X64, so maybe @Chrysostomus knows, as he packaged it?
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@boredland , I summon thee! @simonb , do you know of this matter?
moson
4 October 2021 19:41
7
I guess removing this line (from /etc/sway/config.d/99-autostart-applications.conf
) should do it:
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Hi everyone,
thank you all for your help! I really appreciate it.
@moson s solution is working. I just deleted the line, rebooted et voilá: cliphist keeps quiet.
Thanks again
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8 October 2021 01:10
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Sorry, apparently my notifications don’t work here in the forum. So in my eyes there are two issues:
cliphist is not an optional dependeny, which it should be
a general concern regarding passwords in clipboards/history
For the latter I don’t think I have an idea that provides a really secure way, since copy&paste is inherently insecure. But we at least could
Offer a purge command
Purge automatically on shutdown & boot
Tracking here: cliphist optimizations · Issue #175 · Manjaro-Sway/manjaro-sway · GitHub
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little update:
you can now opt into purging on shutdown.
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