clipse --listen on login starts but doesnt listen to system copy events

[BrayanLope5]

I am on Linux/gnome. I love this tool btw
I have a systemd user service that does successfully start clipse, but clipse doesn't record system copy events. If I run clipse --listen on the terminal, it works as expected and records all copy events.
This is my systemd service.

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
StandardOutput=journal
ExecStart=/home/brayan/Applications/bin/clipse/clipse_0.0.71_linux_amd64/clipse --listen
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Thank you for any help you can offer:)

EDIT:
After some tests I've found the following:

1. The user service, WILL start clipse on boot/login. But clipse won't record system copy events like I mentioned above.
2. Stopping and then starting the service again FROM the terminal AFTER login, starts clipse and clipse successfully records system copy events.

3. Checking details about the two different processes, one started from systemd and the other from the terminal I get the following.

Clipse started from the terminal AFTER login

Clipse started from systemd service. (clipse is added to my path only when opening a terminal emulator.)

I don't know enough about this but the difference I see is in one having a tty listed but not the other.

[savedra1]

Hey @BrayanLope5 thanks for raising this and for your kind words!

It looks like you've set this up correctly so I understand the confusion here. For some context, the clipse -listen cmd spawns a new background listener prcocess using the following cmd: nohup clipse --listen-shell >/dev/null 2>&1 &. I think something is interfering with systemd creating the new process during startup (maybe due to lack of an available shell env outside of TTY) so I would advise getting the service to call that command directy, cutting out the middle-man.

Something like:

[Unit]
Description=Clipse Clipboard Manager

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nohup /home/brayan/Applications/bin/clipse/clipse_0.0.71_linux_amd64/clipse --listen-shell >/dev/null 2>&1 &

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target 

Let me know if that fixes it. The only other thing I can think of rn is to use a startup script instead of systemd but best to avoid if possible I guess 😄

[BrayanLope5]

I couldn't make it work using a systemd service. I tried what you shared and that didn't work. I tried other variations and I just didn't make any headway. Instead I used a .desktop file that autostarts after login. I haven't tested it on KDE Plasma yet but I think it should work, I am on Gnome.

I save this to /home/brayan/.config/autostart/clipse-clipboard-manager.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=clipse
Comment=Clipse event listener autostart.
Exec=/home/brayan/Applications/bin/clipse/clipse_0.0.71_linux_amd64/clipse --listen %f
Terminal=false
Type=Application

[savedra1]

@BrayanLope5 I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help there but glad to hear you found a fix!

Also thank you for sharing a solution, I'll add that to the FAQs.

[Brisingr05]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but it seems to be working for me:

[Unit]
Description=Clipse listener
Documentation=https://github.com/savedra1/clipse
PartOf=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStart=clipse -listen

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

[DSOverlord]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but it seems to be working for me:

[Unit]
Description=Clipse listener
Documentation=https://github.com/savedra1/clipse
PartOf=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStart=clipse -listen

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

This helped me in hyprland, but in i3 and niri the problem remained. At this clipse left stacktrace:

clipse[7588]: goroutine 1 [running]:
clipse[7588]: runtime/debug.Stack()
clipse[7588]:         runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x5e
clipse[7588]: runtime/debug.PrintStack()
clipse[7588]:         runtime/debug/stack.go:16 +0x13
clipse[7588]: github.com/savedra1/clipse/utils.HandleError({0x721f08, 0xc000016940})
clipse[7588]:         github.com/savedra1/clipse/utils/err.go:11 +0x2c
clipse[7588]: github.com/savedra1/clipse/shell.RunNohupListener({0x5f29a8?, 0xc00006a0c8?})
clipse[7588]:         github.com/savedra1/clipse/shell/cmd.go:81 +0x17e
clipse[7588]: main.handleListen({0x5f29a8, 0x7})
clipse[7588]:         github.com/savedra1/clipse/main.go:115 +0xe5
clipse[7588]: main.main()
clipse[7588]:         github.com/savedra1/clipse/main.go:71 +0x3dc
systemd[1689]: clipse.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

[rafaVls]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but it seems to be working for me:

[Unit]
Description=Clipse listener
Documentation=https://github.com/savedra1/clipse
PartOf=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStart=clipse -listen

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

Tried this in Hyprland as well, but no success. Here's the output of the clipse service:

Sep 03 17:16:42 rafa-laptop systemd[622]: Starting Clipse listener...
Sep 03 17:16:42 rafa-laptop systemd[622]: Finished Clipse listener.

The TUI history seems to be working, but I can't copy from it to paste somewhere else. I also tried adding exec-once = clipse -listen to my hyprland.conf file, but it doesn't seem to work either.

Output of echo "hello world" | clipse -c:

hello world

goroutine 1 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack()
	runtime/debug/stack.go:26 +0x5e
runtime/debug.PrintStack()
	runtime/debug/stack.go:18 +0x13
github.com/savedra1/clipse/utils.HandleError({0x619dbaf10f98, 0x619dbb03c930})
	github.com/savedra1/clipse/utils/err.go:11 +0x2c
main.handleCopy()
	github.com/savedra1/clipse/main.go:157 +0x9d
main.main()
	github.com/savedra1/clipse/main.go:68 +0x3d5

[rafaVls]

I'm an idiot... If anyone runs into this, my issue was that I didn't have the wl-clipboard package installed. Installed it with my package manager and now everything works as intended 👍🏾