No more xclip since update to Wayland?

[oren]

Hello community,
Just implemented the latest update to Kernel: 6.12.61-1-MANJARO (Plasma 6.5.3)
Session type seems to be Wayland only. Cannot change session type to X11 through the login screen, so I assume it is meant to stay Wayland
Now xclip is not working. Since xclip was designed for X11, I assume this is the reason.
Does anyone know of a workaround, replacement or a way to safely change session type back to X11?
Thank you very much for any assistance
Oren

[BG405]

Please have a look at this, from the Update Announcement thread:

@discobot

Plasma 6.5 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

On Plasma 6.5 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session after the system update completed, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session for every one using Plasma.

Cheers!

[beermad]

xclip is replaced under Wayland with wl-copy. But check the syntax before dropping it into any scripts, as I think it’s different.

[soundofthunder]

@oren

Session type seems to be Wayland only. Cannot change session type to X11 through the login screen, so I assume it is meant to stay Wayland
…
Does anyone know of a workaround, replacement or a way to safely change session type back to X11?

See Known Issues and Solutions;

@Plasma 6.5 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

On Plasma 6.5 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session after the system update completed, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session for every one using Plasma.

[linux-aarhus]

You can use wl-clipboard package which provides similar functionality for Wayland - the actions provided named wl-copy and wl-paste

sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard

man wl-clipboard

 $ wl-copy -h
Usage:
        wl-copy [options] text to copy
        wl-copy [options] < file-to-copy

Copy content to the Wayland clipboard.

Options:
        -o, --paste-once        Only serve one paste request and then exit.
        -f, --foreground        Stay in the foreground instead of forking.
        -c, --clear             Instead of copying, clear the clipboard.
        -p, --primary           Use the "primary" clipboard.
        -n, --trim-newline      Do not copy the trailing newline character.
        -t, --type mime/type    Override the inferred MIME type for the content.
        -s, --seat seat-name    Pick the seat to work with.
        -v, --version           Display version info.
        -h, --help              Display this message.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

See wl-clipboard(1) for more details.

 $ wl-paste -h
Usage:
        wl-paste [options]
Paste content from the Wayland clipboard.

Options:
        -n, --no-newline        Do not append a newline character.
        -l, --list-types        Instead of pasting, list the offered types.
        -p, --primary           Use the "primary" clipboard.
        -w, --watch command     Run a command each time the selection changes.
        -t, --type mime/type    Override the inferred MIME type for the content.
        -s, --seat seat-name    Pick the seat to work with.
        -v, --version           Display version info.
        -h, --help              Display this message.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

See wl-clipboard(1) for more details.

[oren]

Thank you! Works perfectly.