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Alex Gonzalez Lacasa
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wayland & clipboard

#linux #wayland #clipboard #copy

The clipboard in wayland works differently than in X11.
For some programs like vim to be able to access the system clipboard you must have installed wl-clipboard

sudo apt install wl-clipboard
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To be able to copy stdout you need wl-copy, xclip or xsel doesn't work anymore

sudo apt install wl-copy
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example

echo "Hello world" | wl-copy
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