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From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland side-effect?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:01:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f8fff64-0913-8ecc-d212-9aca2ea44e31@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2059993.Icojqenx9y@lenovo.localdomain>

On 27/12/2020 18:51, Michael wrote:
> Restarting the desktop using Xorg does NOT fix this problem.  Otherwise, both
> Plasma on Wayland and Xorg work fine - except the clipboard does not work on
> Wayland (middle click won't paste selected text on another window).

This sounds to me like a side-effect of Wayland security. I don't really 
know anything about it, but I get the impression that talking between 
windows is an unsolved security problem.

Of course, it could be it's a solved problem, but you've hit a glitch...

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-27 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-27 18:51 [gentoo-user] Wayland side-effect? Michael
2020-12-27 21:01 ` antlists [this message]
2020-12-28  0:10   ` Michael
2020-12-29 19:21     ` Michael

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