How can I make the keepassxc clear the password from the cliphist?

[aljustiet]

The keepassxc doesn't delete the password from the cliphist after 10 seconds. I think it should run the cliphist delete <password> after 10 seconds to delete it from the cliphist.

[droidmonkey]

You need to tell cliphist to support the standard password mime data flags for clipboard.

[droidmonkey]

Never seen that before. Link to definition of that "protocol"?

[winkelnp]

It's an (in their words) "mini-protocol" that wl-clipboard gives, explained in their man page: https://man.archlinux.org/man/wl-clipboard.1

As such I'm not sure how it would have to be implemented to work or if that would even be on something like a password manager to support, and it is, of course, everything but official for wayland, just hopeful for a future wayland-protocol

Complete aside: by "standard mime data flags" do you mean x-kde-passwordManagerHint?

[droidmonkey]

However, the currently existing Wayland clipboard protocols don't let wl-clipboard identify the cases where clear and sensitive values should be set, so currently wl-clipboard only ever sets CLIPBOARD_STATE to data or nil.

The KDE mime flag is much more of a standard than this environment variable.

[cnt0]

Hello, I did my research about this topic, and the current state is the following:

• wl-clipboard learned to check the x-kde-passwordManagerHint mime flag, and in this case it sets the CLIPBOARD_STATE environment variable to sensitive according to its mini-protocol
• cliphist supports this mini-protocol out of box
• wl-clipboard maintainer has yet to release a new version with this feature, so it's not in downstream repositories yet. So right now it's better to build it manually from the git master. relevant issue

So I believe nothing technical needs to be done on the keepassxc side. Maybe it worth mentioning somewhere in the documentation that it's advised to use wl-clipboard with version >2.2.1 or from git master.