PrivacyCopy Anchor Link

Settings → Privacy is about anti-forensics: reducing what the desktop leaves behind. It focuses on the clipboard.

Clipboard historyCopy Anchor Link

• Save clipboard history — turn it off and nothing is stored. Turning it off also wipes the saved history and empties the current clipboard.
• Clear automatically — Never, 5 min, 15 min, or 1 hour. A systemd --user timer (ummitos-clipboard-expiry) is re-armed on every copy and restored after a shell restart.
• Items the source app marks sensitive (password managers set the clipboard state) are never written to history.

ClearingCopy Anchor Link

Clearing wipes the history and empties the live clipboard, so nothing stays pasteable. There are three ways to do it:

1. Settings → Privacy → Clear clipboard now.
2. The two-step red button in the Alt + V clipboard window — the first click arms it and shows "Clear all?", the second confirms and closes the window.
3. The automatic timer above.

Each confirms with a shell notice ("Clipboard cleared") and a sound. Settings are stored in ~/.config/ummitos/privacy.conf.

What it does and doesn'tCopy Anchor Link

This reduces what is left behind; it is not a guarantee against a forensic examiner. Wayland does not tell the shell which app copied, so there are no per-app exclusions beyond the sensitive-state check. cliphist keeps a plain database, and deleting entries is not a secure overwrite: SSDs, copy-on-write filesystems, and backups can retain data.