robertstrom
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15 hours ago I have also had issues with CopyQ. It's definitely a Wayland thing. Issues with Wayland and CopyQ are definitely a thing. The CopyQ GitHub issues page has several posts about it, one of which is mine and another one that I am part of the thread. Both have quite a bit of information on the possible solutions and the challenges with anything Wayland.
Wayland .... supposed to be the amazing replacement for X. Better in all ways. Except for compatibility. Except that every DE implements things in a different way and programs do not behave the same from distro to distro because everyone implements things in a different way.
Here's my post in the issues - CopyQ on Pop!_OS 2024 - Wayland
Here's the thread that I am in where the developer chimes in about Wayland - New install of CopyQ not importing of clipboard content: not linking with Wayland clipboard?
The second post details my experimentation with another distro (Zorin) that uses Wayland and how things behave when I instlall the Flatpak and the deb version of CopyQ. I highly recommend the read.
My summary of the issue - "Summary ... Wayland is a royal PITA. It appears to be the future path forward but there are still so many issues. I am not a developer but ... Why are these so hard to get working?"
I understand, and agree, with moving forward with new and better technology / getting rid of tech debt. I am an Information Security professional and getting rid of tech debt is one of my biggest challenges. I fundamentally have not issue with "new and better" but you can't just break important things like clipboard managers and screenshot programs!
Sure I could use the built in Cosmic screenshot program but it is nothing like Flameshot (which does not work in most Wayland environments). Sure the Cosmic clipboard manager may work, but it doesn't hold a candle to CopyQ!
So, System 76 developers ... what needs to be done to make these programs work in the new Cosmic DE?
Thanks!
Hi. I've installed Cosmic from the Alpha 2 ISO image and had all the updates as of this writing. I tried using Diodon and Copyq, clipboard managers that I'm used to, but they don't pick up copy action, whether by using Crtl+C or by right mouse click. I can normally paste the copied content to another app with Ctrl+V so it would seem that the buffer holds the data correctly. There are no issues with installing or running both apps.
EDIT: CopyQ installed a bunch of Wyland dependencies so I'm guessing that's not what's causing the issue. Also, I installed a Clipboard Manager from Cosmic Utils (https://github.com/cosmic-utils/clipboard-manager) and it's working fine.
Cheers.