Open powellnorma opened 2 months ago
Looking at the source, it seems like clipboard-sync expects the environment variable to be wayland-X
, where X is an digit:
https://github.com/dnut/clipboard-sync/blob/a79e6ad41faafbeb0db974fc08b3a8e6207ac6d5/src/sync.rs#L195
So I now am using wayland-0
, but get:
WARN - wayland-0 does not support zwlr_data_control_manager_v1. If you are running gnome in wayland, that's OK because it provides an x11 clipboard, which will be used instead.
Looks like Weston does not support zwlr_data_control_manager_v1
currently.. Any workarounds?
https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-data-control-unstable-v1#compositor-support
I tried cage, however it fails with
00:00:00.000 [backend/x11/backend.c:607] Failed to query DRI3 DRM FD
00:00:00.000 [../cage.c:311] Unable to create the wlroots backend
I think even if zwlr_data_control_manager_v1
is not supported, it would still be nice if clipboard-sync would paste into that wayland session (but not watch for clipboard changes, since that's not possible)
I've reproduced this. Since wl-copy and wl-paste work, it's clearly doable. I'm looking into it now to figure out the best way to get this into clipboard-sync.
I think even if
zwlr_data_control_manager_v1
is not supported, it would still be nice if clipboard-sync would paste into that wayland session (but not watch for clipboard changes, since that's not possible)
I got this much working. My initial quick and dirty approach is using the wl-copy
command for wayland clipboards that do not support wlr. You'll need wl-copy installed to take advantage of this. It only copies in, but not out. In the future, I would like to implement the logic from wl-copy directly, so you don't need it as a dependency.
wl-paste
could work to get data out, but the problem is that wl-paste needs to open a window to do its job. clipboard-sync needs to perform frequent polling of the clipboard. I tested this and the frequent opening and closing of windows causes severe usability problems for the desktop environment. So clipboard-sync doesn't use wl-paste for polling. This is why it only supports bringing data in but not out of these clipboards.
I am starting weston from X11 like this:
When I now start
clipboard-sync
, it doesn't seem to find the wayland session, even when I ensureWAYLAND_DISPLAY
is set correctly. It logs:wl-copy works fine:
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=mysocket wl-copy "a test"