Comment 14 for bug 616370

I was able to get Klipper working via keyboard shortcut in KDE 4.5.1 by going into Settings->Shortcuts and Gestures->Global Keyboard Shortcuts and selecting Plasma Workspace. Under there is an option to set the global shortcut key for Klipper (System-Klipper-10). I set mine to my usual, ctr-shift-X.

However, the ability to have the Klipper menu popup at the mouse cursor position appears to have been removed in this version. I added the configuration item (PopupAtMousePosition=true) by hand to ~/.kde/share/config/klipperrc but it doesn't do anything. The Klipper menu still just pops up from the system tray which is annoying since I regularly work with dual monitors (have to move the mouse quite a screen distance to get there sometimes).