ArchLinux/Wayland/Sway -- error while interacting with the clipboard: Display parsing error

[Eli Heuer]

I'm trying to run the example in the readme on an ArchLinux/Wayland/Sway desktop environment, but I get the error: error while interacting with the clipboard: Display parsing error.

I see in the readme it says: There's also an optional wayland data control backend through the wl-clipboard-rs crate. This can be enabled using the wayland-data-control feature., but it's not clear how to do that or if it would let me build the example without an error.

I'm trying to fix a build fail in a GUI application called MFEKglif with this issue.

Thanks!

[ComplexSpaces]

Hi there @eliheuer,

I believe the feature flag you're looking for is called wayland-data-control. You can enable it in your project like this:

[dependencies]
arboard = { version = "3.2", features = ["wayland-data-control"] }

Does that solve your problem?

[Popov Philipp]

@complexspaces That did help me getting the text clipboard data from most applications on Wayland, thank you

[ComplexSpaces]

No problem, I'm glad that solved things for you. I'm going to close this for now but let me know if you run into any more Wayland-specific problems.