Sway: Anyway of getting xclip and xsel working with sway?

[thebunnyrules]

Hi, I noticed that even though they worked perfectly in gnome-shell wayland running native wayland apps, xclip and xsel no longer work with sway running native wayland apps (I've tested this with both the new alpha and 0.15). Is it a bug, is it by design or is it some feature that the gnome DE supports but Sway doesn't? Is there anything I can do to get them to work?

[emersion]

It's by design. In 1.0 X11 clients will only be able to access the clipboard if a X11 window is focused.

You can use swaymsg to read and write the clipboard instead (not yet implemented in sway 1.0).

[thebunnyrules]

Nice! Is there something similar for reading selections?

[emersion]

swaymsg -t get_clipboard IIRC

[thebunnyrules]

Is the IIRC type available in 0.15 or is it a new feature planned to be implemented 1.0. I've tested swaymsg -t get_cliboard IIRC but it gives me a no matching type found error.

[emersion]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc

[thebunnyrules]

I see.... hahaha

[thebunnyrules]

I was able to get swaymsg -t get_cliboard TEXT

to grab clipboard content. Is there anyway of getting selection content (in the style of xsel)?

[ddevault]

No, in sway 0.15 the primary selection is an X concept that isn't tracked by Sway. Just use xsel to get it.

[thebunnyrules]

xsel doesn't work on the wayland native windows (at least not in sway, for some reason it seems to work in gnome-shell wayland).

[ddevault]

That's because Wayland native windows don't have a primary selection. In gnome they have a special primary selection protocol, which sway 1.0-alpha.1 supports.

[thebunnyrules]

Yey!!! :+1: That's great to know.

[thebunnyrules]

swaymsg -t get_cliboard TEXT

I noticed that the above command would cut off after 578 characters in Sway 0.15. Is this by design or a bug ? If it's by design, where can I modify the limit in the source code?

[emersion]

Search for "get_clipboard" in the source code? This is most likely a bug, and will be fixed in 1.0.

[thebunnyrules]

Ok. I'll way for the 1.0 release. Thanks emersion.