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A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
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Yet another suggestion -- CopyQ #70

Closed DN-debug closed 2 years ago

DN-debug commented 2 years ago

Hi Nat,

This time, it is a clipboard manager called CopyQ. This works via XWayland though, which is why I am not sure whether this qualifies to be in the list of pure Wayland software or not, but that is for you to decide.

Many thanks DN-debug

ghost commented 2 years ago

why would it be pure wayland when it cant run in pure wayland environment?

DN-debug commented 2 years ago

I believe you might want to re-read my statement and the one you wrote as well, I never said it to be pure Wayland.

xPMo commented 2 years ago

The GUI is X11, but it talks to the clipboard over Wayland: https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/tree/master/src/platform/x11/systemclipboard

DN-debug commented 2 years ago

xPMo is correct, XWayland always works as a proxy in-between, so it is natural for it to intercept and forward requests to and from Wayland.

@natpen It doesn't appear to me that the XWayland applications are going to be part of this list, so what do you think? Shall I close it? Please suggest.

xPMo commented 2 years ago

imo it should be added, it has a native clipboard implementation (just like the wl-clipboard tools).

natpen commented 2 years ago

My initial leaning was to exclude it for the reason you mentioned (i.e., avoiding XWayland additions). But it does have native Wayland components, as pointed out in this thread, and there's the issue of similarity with wl-clipboard - so I am okay adding it.

I'll merge this in now. Thank you for the contribution @DN-debug , and everyone else for the informative discussion!