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

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.

Thank you @Steingrimr for the solution.