Package: klipper Version: 4:4.3.0-3 Severity: important $ dpkg -L klipper [..] /etc/kde3/klipperrc But strace shows: $ strace -e trace=open,stat klipper --nofork [..] stat("/etc/kde4/klipperrc", 0x7fff132bbd20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [..] (And it doesn't look for the one in /etc/kde3) Workaround: copy the file either to /etc/kde4/ or ~/.kde/share/config