Lacks support for manipulating the clipboard directly in Wayland

[diogopessoa]

What Happened?

Some Wayland compositors may not provide clipboard access protocol for apps, this is the case at least for the latest Ubuntu releases and consequently the systems that use it as a base. You can verify the clipboard access by running wl-paste on command line (it should print current clipboard content and no error).

I am currently using CopyQ as a clipboard manager. However, elementary OS does not support accessing the clipboard directly in Wayland. To solve this, install wl-clipboard.

This tool helps to integrate clipboards with the native Wayland protocol.

• When running wl-paste on command line:

Steps to Reproduce

1. install a clipboard manager (in my case I installed CopyQ directly from AppCenter);
2. copy some text and check if it is stored in the clipboard history;
3. verify the clipboard access by running wl-paste on command line (it should print current clipboard content and no error);
4. this should print the current clipboard contents (but it won't return anything due to lack of support in Wayland).

Expected Behavior

It should show the clipboard contents without errors.

• After clipboard access support is installed sudo apt install wl-clipboard, It shows the last copied content without errors:

I hope the elementary team can implement support in the future.

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[lenemter]

You have mistaken Wayland protocol that has to be implemented inside the compositor and a utility that manipulates said protocols to get clipboard contents.

I'll transfer this issue to seeds because the issue is not about the wayland protocol but the utility some apps may rely on.