Open robertstrom opened 1 month ago
UPDATE: I have finally got CopyQ partially working on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS
I ended up in a conversation with a Pop!_OS support person about another issue and I mentioned Wayland and the fact that a number of things have issues working in a Wayland environment. He said that he also used CopyQ and that he had it working on the new Pop!_OS 24.04 using the Cosmic DE.
He said that I should add this to the /etc/environment
file
COSMIC_DATA_CONTROL_ENABLED=1
I added that and it still did not work (I had the .deb installation of CopyQ). I uninstalled the .deb version and installed the Flatpak version from the Cosmic store (it's version 9) and now CopyQ is partially working.
The copying and pasting is now working but I have run into the following issues:
flatpak run com.github.hluk.copyq config | grep -i auto
. Auto start was not enabledflatpak run com.github.hluk.copyq config autostart true
flatpak run com.github.hluk.copyq config | grep -i auto
. I could see that the auto start configuration was now enabledDocuments/copyq-backups
. The Documents directory exists, but there is no copyq-backups
directorycopyq-backups
directory and then exited the program to see if it would create a backup. It did not.Love, love, love the application. Would sure love to see it working on a Wayland desktop. I also briefly tried using it on a 64 bit Raspbian desktop and it would not copy and paste there either. I did not keep that install functioning for long enough to get much more data.
This has been opened and marked as a bug for quite some time now but I am not sure if anyone has looked at this. Could someone please acknowledge that this has been seen and let me know if this is being looked into or not?
Thanks!
Describe the bug CopyQ not capturing text in the Pop!_OS 2024 release (Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu. This release is using the Pop!_OS Cosmic DE). This release is running Wayland. I have tried using both of the documented workarounds in the issues page shown below
https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/known-issues.html
and configuring the
Exec=
line in the~/.config/autostart/copyq.desktop
fileCopyQ is set to auto-start and that is not working and copying is not working
To Reproduce
Since CopyQ is not auto-starting I ran the command
copyq
at the command line and saw the messageExpected behavior CopyQ should auto-start
CopyQ should work in Wayland
Screenshots
Version, OS and Environment
CopyQ Clipboard Manager 9.0.0 Qt: 5.15.8 KNotifications: 5.103.0 Compiler: GCC Arch: x86_64-little_endian-lp64 OS: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS
FYI - CopyQ is currently installed via the deb package downloaded from the CopyQ GitHub. I originally installed it from the Pop!_OS Cosmic App Store which installed the Flatpak version. Once I found that the Wayland potential fix needed the
~/.config/autostart/copyq.desktop
file edited and I saw that the file did not exist I bailed on the Flatpak version. I am NOT a fan of Flatpak or Snap because of this type of an issue. Making configuration changes to apps installed via either of those two methods is a royal PITA (at least based on what I am remembering from a few years ago).Also FYI - while trying to copy and paste from the terminal in the latest Pop!_OS I tried to use some
xsel
commands that I have used before to copy from the terminal. I know the command below works, but it does not work in Wayland.I found this terminal copy and paste solution that does copy from the terminal in Wayland
https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
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