#3418·iced

Clipboard broken on wayland only clients on compositor w/o ext-data-control-v1

Author: luca020400Created Aug 11, 2026Updated Aug 11, 2026
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Is your issue REALLY a bug?

  • My issue is indeed a bug!
  • I am not crazy! I will not fill out this form just to ask a question or request a feature. Pinky promise.

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • I have searched the existing issues.

Is this issue related to iced?

  • My hardware is compatible and my graphics drivers are up-to-date.

What happened?

After https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/3238 due to https://github.com/1Password/arboard/issues/223 on compositors that don't support ext-data-control-v1 (e.g. Mutter) and wayland only clients clipboard is effectively dead.

https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/2156 may help if it ends up in winit, but otherwise what pop os did (smithay-clipboard with custom mime support) might be a solution...

What is the expected behavior?

Clipboard to work on Mutter & wayland only.

Version

master

Operating System

Linux

Do you have any log output?

bash