dotfiles/noctalia/plugins/clipper/CHANGELOG_v2.3.0.md

Changelog v2.3.0

Release Date

2026-03-19

New Features

Fullscreen Mode

• New toggle in Settings → Features: Fullscreen Mode
• Expands the panel to fill the entire screen vertically and horizontally
• Clipboard panel (cliphist) stays anchored to the bottom
• PinCards and NoteCards remain fully accessible in fullscreen
• Panel width expands to full screen width (screen.width)
• Panel height expands to full screen height (screen.height)

Hide Panel Background

• New toggle in Settings → Features: Hide Panel Background
• Makes the SmartPanel background transparent — cards float over the desktop blur or wallpaper
• Clipboard panel (cliphist) and PinCards retain their own background for readability
• Clicking anywhere on the transparent background closes the panel (backdrop dismiss)
• Works best combined with Noctalia's background blur effect

Auto-Paste on Click

• New toggle in Settings → Auto-Paste: Auto-Paste on Click
• After selecting a clipboard item, the panel closes and the content is automatically pasted into the focused window
• Uses wtype -M ctrl -M shift v (Ctrl+Shift+V) — works in terminals and most applications
• Requires wtype — install with sudo pacman -S wtype (available in cachyos-extra-v3 / Arch AUR)
• Warning box appears in settings when wtype is not installed

Auto-Paste Right-Click Mode

• Sub-toggle: Right-Click Only (visible when Auto-Paste is enabled)
• When enabled: left-click copies to clipboard normally; right-click copies + pastes
• When disabled: left-click triggers auto-paste; right-click does nothing special
• Works on both clipboard list items and pinned items

Auto-Paste Delay Slider

• Slider: Paste Delay (ms) — range 100–1000 ms, step 50, default 300 ms
• Allows tuning the delay between panel close and paste trigger
• Increase if your compositor uses focus-follows-cursor (focus needs time to return to target window)

Improvements

NSlider component fix

• Replaced standard Qt Slider component with Noctalia's NValueSlider widget
• Consistent look and feel with the rest of the settings UI

i18n

12 new translation keys added (all 17 languages)

• settings.fullscreen-mode / settings.fullscreen-mode-desc
• settings.hide-panel-background / settings.hide-panel-background-desc
• settings.auto-paste-section
• settings.auto-paste / settings.auto-paste-desc
• settings.auto-paste-warning
• settings.auto-paste-rmb / settings.auto-paste-rmb-desc
• settings.auto-paste-delay / settings.auto-paste-delay-desc

Full translations provided for: de, es, fr, pl. English fallback for all other languages. Italian (it.json) — new language file added.

Technical Notes

• Panel.qml: Added panelBackgroundColor property — allows plugin to override SmartPanel background color reactively
• PluginPanelSlot.qml (Noctalia core): Added forwarding of panelBackgroundColor from plugin instance to SmartPanel
• Main.qml: Added wtypeAvailable detection via which wtype on startup; autoPasteTimer + autoPasteProc with full cleanup in Component.onDestruction
• ClipboardCard.qml: Added signal rightClicked; both MouseAreas updated to handle Qt.RightButton

Known Issues

• After adding a clipboard into ToDo plugin you can't check the complete box or remove that clipboard from ToDo
• Auto-Paste uses Ctrl+Shift+V which works in terminals; for GUI-only apps Ctrl+V would be sufficient — a "Terminal Mode" toggle may be added in a future release

Upgrade Notes

• Plugin will automatically migrate settings — three new fields added to settings.json: fullscreenMode, hidePanelBackground, autoPaste, autoPasteOnRightClick, autoPasteDelay
• No user action required
• Existing pinned items and notecards are preserved
• wtype must be installed separately for Auto-Paste to function