register_clipboard crashed with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connect'

[martinkg]

Version of Variety

variety-0.8.9-2.fc37

Describe the bug

Description of problem:
Started my computer and logged in. Variety is set to start automatically.

Version-Release number of selected component:
variety-0.8.9-2.fc37

Additional info:
reporter: libreport-2.17.4
cgroup: 0::/user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/app.slice/variety.service
cmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/david/.config/variety/
crash_function: register_clipboard
exception_type: AttributeError
executable: /usr/bin/variety
interpreter: python3-3.11.1-1.fc37.x86_64
kernel: 6.1.6-200.fc37.x86_64
runlevel: N 5
type: Python3
uid: 1001

Truncated backtrace:
VarietyWindow.py:343:register_clipboard:AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connect'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/variety", line 66, in
variety.main()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/variety/init.py", line 239, in main
window.start(arguments)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 145, in start
self.register_clipboard()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 343, in register_clipboard
self.clipboard.connect("owner-change", clipboard_changed)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connect'

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <VarietyWindow.VarietyWindow object at 0x7f6fe51e5540 (uninitialized at 0x(nil))>
clipboard_changed: <function VarietyWindow.register_clipboard..clipboard_changed at 0x7f6fe4f78040>

Context

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Desktop environment and version

OS name and version

Fedora fc37.x86_64

[jlu5]

I'm a bit confused here, is variety being started from a systemd user service? (reference to app.slice/variety.service) The traceback looks like it's failing to bind to the clipboard, but I'm not sure what would cause that situation to begin with.