cut/copy/paste issues

[mgutz]

I'm having sporadic issues with cut/copy/paste across applications. Most of the time it works, but, as an example, I'll have to copy the URL many times from Firefox address bar to paste it into foot or obsidian. Does not seem to matter if copy is done with the mouse or keyboard. It often takes many retries.

This happens intermittently between VS Code, Firefox, foot and obsidian all running in wayland mode (verified with xwininfo). I'm not running any clipboard utility.

Anybody else running into this?

[varris1]

Are you trying to paste things from wayland into xwayland windows? If you do, there is a solution inside #2319

[rsacherer]

Yeah, suddenly ran into this too, never had this issue, then suddenly it popped up, it might have to do me switching from firefox to chromium and it being an xwayland app.

It worked when copying from xwayland chrome, pasting into foot, copying from foot and pasting into obsidian for example.

Also I had two chromium instances to separate work flows (one in a scratch window for communication, the other for work) and one of those was wayland, the other xwayland.

I now reconfigured obsidian to run native wayland and chromium as well, so now nearly all apps I run are pure wayland and it seems much better.