Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Using xfce4-clipman without xfsettingd running (e.g. using xfce4-clipman
in Openbox)

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

1. Cutting and pasting files in PCManFM.
2. Copying content to the clipboard in Inkscape.
3. Pasting clipboard content.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

1. PCManFM copies files instead of moving them.
2. Inkscape gives an error message about UniConverter failing.
3. Sometimes it does not work unless I click on the content again in the
clipboard history.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expect xfce4-clipman to work properly in non-XFCE environments.

When installing and running xfsettingsd as a workaround, all of the
above is fixed and works properly.
But running xfsettingsd screws up my Openbox environment, and it should
not be necessary for a standalone instance of xfce4-clipman anyway.

Using clipit instead of xfce4-clipman might be an alternative for some
people, but without xfce4-clipman the screenshot utility
xfce4-screenshooter loses its "copy to clipboard" function, and that
function is the main reason I am using xfce4-clipman in the first place.

Thanks,
Lester

xfsettings had its own clipboard manager, so it's doing the job itself.
clipman plugin should work just fine without xfsettingsd.

Regards,

Yves-Alexis Perez:

xfce4-clipman should work just fine without xfsettingsd, but
unfortunately it does not – at least not for me (and neither for an LXDE
user I know).
That is why I filed this bug report.

This upstream bug seems to be related to point 3 of my report:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10524