wayland & clipboard

Alex Gonzalez Lacasa — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:29:25 +0000

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

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

sudo apt install wl-copy

example

echo "Hello world" | wl-copy

VIM / NeoVim and the clipboard (in Linux)

Alex Gonzalez Lacasa — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:32:18 +0000

First check is your vim installation is enabled to access to the system clipboard.

:checkhealth

This show posible warnings like

Clipboard (optional)
- WARNING No clipboard tool found. Clipboard registers ("+ and "*) will not work.
  - ADVICE:
    - :help clipboard

try to put in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

set clipboard=unnamedplus

If the clipboard still isn't working and your graphical environment uses Wayland, install:
wl-clipboard

sudo apt install wl-clipboard

At least in my case the clipboard between applications already works.

And remember, in VISUAL mode
y for copy
p for paste

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wayland & clipboard

VIM / NeoVim and the clipboard (in Linux)