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maoschanz / drawing

Simple image editor for Linux

https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/

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'copy to clipboard' is broken #410

Open sl424 opened 3 years ago

sl424 commented 3 years ago

Description

when using 'copy to clipboard' feature, wl-paste would hang and not paste anything.

Steps to reproduce the bug

open drawing app
click 'copy to clipboard'
In a separate terminal, enter wl-paste

System

Device (desktop computer/tablet/phone/...): thinkpad t450s
OS: fedora f34
Desktop environment: - swaywm 1.6, alacritty 0.8.0, wl-clipboard 2.0.0
Package format: Name : drawing Version : 0.8.3 Release : 1.fc34 Architecture : noarch Size : 4.3 M Source : drawing-0.8.3-1.fc34.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : updates
App version: 0.8.3

maoschanz commented 3 years ago

i'll investigate it when i'll have time to set up a VM with sway, meanwhile my first guess is that wl-paste fails to guess the type of what i set in the clipboard

edit:

wl-paste --list-types to know what it tries
wl-paste --type xxxxx to force a specific type