Still trying to discover additonal info about the Klipper icon in the panel.

I removed the icon from the panel. I exited Trinity/X and restarted. Then I added the Klipper applet to the panel.

Same huge size.

I fiddled with the new system tray icon resizing. The krandr icon changes sizes but the klipper icon does not.

I tried the same thing with the panel icons. The other panel buttons changed size but the klipper icon did not.

I'll offer a wild guess there is a conflict of some sort with the klipper code and the system tray resizing code.

Again, this happens only with the root user. Perhaps there is something similar happening as with the KDEROOTHOME problem.

On a possible good note, I can't seem to replicate the "Klipper is already running!" message. I removed a file from ~/.kde/share/apps/klipper. Can't say for sure whether that file was corrupted in some way.

Darrell