The clipboard keeps its history running and keeps it to itself (hq issues 743, 750)

clipmenud is declared as the operator's user unit, enabled and running, with a launcher that finds the display. Copy reads the clipboard back and fails with the reason. History and paste answer counts, times and lengths, never content.

modules/clipmenu/module.json

@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@
       "CM_HISTLENGTH": "15"
     }
   },
-  "shell": [
-    {
-      "for": "xinitrc",
-      "slot": "normal",
-      "code": "# The clipboard's history (module clipmenu, novox/hq ADR 0208): clipmenud collects every copy from\n# here on, once per session. It keeps the history in the account's runtime directory, so a reboot\n# forgets it, and with it every password that was ever copied.\n# Through the module's xsel, which reads only a selection offering text (see the README).\nPATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mesh-clipmenu:$PATH\" clipmenud &\n"
-    }
-  ],
   "resources": [
     {
       "id": "package",
@@ -54,6 +47,44 @@
       "path": "/usr/local/lib/mesh-clipmenu/xsel",
       "mode": "0755",
       "content": "#!/bin/sh\n# xsel as clipmenud sees it, written by the mesh (module clipmenu). Replaced at every push.\n#\n# clipmenud records text, and reads a selection with `timeout 1 xsel -o`. A selection holding an\n# image (a screenshot copied as image/png) is sent in pieces; one second is too short for megabytes,\n# timeout kills xsel half way, and the program owning the image waits for ever for a reader that is\n# gone. From then on nothing can ask the clipboard anything: pastes hang, and an Electron app that\n# asks on its main thread freezes. So a read goes ahead only when the selection offers text.\ncase \" $* \" in\n*\" -o \"* | *\" --output \"*)\n\tselection=clipboard\n\tcase \" $* \" in\n\t*\" --primary \"* | *\" -p \"*) selection=primary ;;\n\t*\" --secondary \"* | *\" -s \"*) selection=secondary ;;\n\tesac\n\ttargets=$(timeout 1 xclip -selection \"$selection\" -t TARGETS -o 2>/dev/null) || exit 1\n\tprintf '%s\\n' \"$targets\" | grep -qxE 'UTF8_STRING|STRING|TEXT|text/plain(;charset=utf-8)?' || exit 1\n\t;;\nesac\nexec /usr/bin/xsel \"$@\"\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "user-units-dir",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/systemd/user",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0755"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "daemon-dropins",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/systemd/user/clipmenud.service.d",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0755"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "daemon-dropin",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/systemd/user/clipmenud.service.d/mesh.conf",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "content": "# clipmenud in the operator's account (module clipmenu, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# The package's unit starts clipmenud with no DISPLAY; the module's launcher finds the display and puts the\n# text-only xsel first on the PATH. The settings repeat the module's environment, which the account's\n# service manager does not read.\n[Unit]\nStartLimitIntervalSec=0\n\n[Service]\nRestartSec=2s\nEnvironment=CM_SELECTIONS=clipboard\nEnvironment=CM_MAX_CLIPS=500\nEnvironment=CM_HISTLENGTH=15\nExecStart=\nExecStart=/usr/local/lib/mesh-clipmenu/clipmenud-session\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "launcher",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/usr/local/lib/mesh-clipmenu/clipmenud-session",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "content": "#!/bin/sh\n# clipmenud as the operator's user unit starts it, written by the mesh (module clipmenu). Replaced at every push.\n#\n# The account's service manager starts before the X server does, and has a DISPLAY only once the session's\n# xinitrc has handed it over (module xorg). So this waits, quietly, until the display is known, and exits\n# only when the session ends with it: a quick exit would run the unit into its start limit. DISPLAY, when\n# the manager has it, wins. Without it, exactly one X socket names the display; none or several (a\n# second server beside the session) wait for the session's own to arrive.\n# A running process does not see what the session hands the manager later, so each pass asks the manager.\nuntil [ -n \"$DISPLAY\" ]; do\n\tfor pair in $(systemctl --user show-environment 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^(DISPLAY|XAUTHORITY)='); do\n\t\texport \"$pair\"\n\tdone\n\t[ -n \"$DISPLAY\" ] && break\n\tset -- /tmp/.X11-unix/X*\n\tif [ $# -eq 1 ] && [ -S \"$1\" ]; then\n\t\tDISPLAY=\":${1##*/X}\"\n\t\texport DISPLAY\n\telse\n\t\tsleep 1\n\tfi\ndone\nif [ -z \"$XAUTHORITY\" ] && [ -r \"$HOME/.Xauthority\" ]; then\n\tXAUTHORITY=\"$HOME/.Xauthority\"\n\texport XAUTHORITY\nfi\nPATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mesh-clipmenu:$PATH\"\nexport PATH\nexec clipmenud\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "daemon",
+      "type": "service",
+      "unit": "clipmenud.service",
+      "scope": "user",
+      "user": "${machine:account}",
+      "state": "running",
+      "boot": "enabled"
     }
   ],
   "build": {