wayland and xwayland clipboards do not sync (KDE)
I notice if I try to copy and past something from a wayland window to a xwayland window it pastes the last coppied text/item from the xwayland window
seems like wayland and xwayland have sepreatte clipboards?
this is on bazzite-deck with KDE
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it looks like kde does already have a service which syncs the two. however when I was having the issue plasma was not responding so it wasn't running that service to sync the clipboard
rebooted and its been working fine.
though every now and then plasma locks up on me (apps are unaffected its just the panels and desktop) and when it does it seems the sync doesn't work...
GitHub
GitHub - dnut/clipboard-sync: Synchronizes the clipboard across mul...
Synchronizes the clipboard across multiple X11 and wayland instances running on the same machine. - dnut/clipboard-sync
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seems like its supposed to already be fixed though https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/synchronizing-the-x11-and-wayland-clipboard/
Martin Flöser
Martin's Blog
Synchronizing the X11 and Wayland clipboard
One of the greatest annoyances after switching my work systems to Wayland is the lack of clipboard synchronization between the X11 and Wayland windowing system. X11 clipboard is only available to X…
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Solution
it looks like kde does already have a service which syncs the two. however when I was having the issue plasma was not responding so it wasn't running that service to sync the clipboard
rebooted and its been working fine.
though every now and then plasma locks up on me (apps are unaffected its just the panels and desktop) and when it does it seems the sync doesn't work
also found this which could also help I guess https://github.com/dnut/clipboard-sync
but plasma should already be syncing the x11 and wayland clipboards apperently
GitHub
GitHub - dnut/clipboard-sync: Synchronizes the clipboard across mul...
Synchronizes the clipboard across multiple X11 and wayland instances running on the same machine. - dnut/clipboard-sync