Proton on Wayland - Broken Clipboard Paste & Potential fix for it

EVE Technology and Research Center Linux
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Hello,

OS: Encountered this problem on both Archlinux and CachyOS running KDE Wayland

Issue: Copy from browser, discord, or anything external does not paste into game client - in my case running CachyOS proton version.

Cause: Something broken between wayland copy paste and proton, might not be present for all versions of proton. X11 likely has no problem but I didn’t test it myself.

Fix is to use xclip and sync with wayland clipboard. Commands are for arch based systems, just change them for your OS if needed(ie “sudo apt install” for debian based):

sudo pacman -S xclip

paru -Ss clipboard-sync

https://github.com/dnut/clipboard-sync for other distro without AUR

systemctl --user enable --now clipboard-sync

Hope this helps someone. Would love input on other solutions as well.

Another possible fix is to try other proton versions, or X11 rather than KDE.

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OMFG Thank you. That’s been driving me nuts.

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Thank you @Steingrimr for the solution.

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You are a beautiful human being. Thank you! That has been driving me up the wall.

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Its not a Wayland issue its a kde issue.

And it should be fixed in the next kde release.

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I accomplished this by simply activating, running a couple times, then deactivating (I don’t use it) the Steam overlay. After a while, it will break again, then just repeat. (I hate installing things I don’t REALLY Need :wink: )

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Update: this was a kde bug which has since been fixed in version 6.5.2 so if your distro has that version packaged update instead of using a workaround.

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Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
Graphics Platform: Wayland

It looks like Debian is still a long way off.
Should I wait about three years?

For now, I’m working around this by using the Plasma clipboard manager, which resides in the task tray.