Clipboard history

[ghost]

If I understand correctly, clipboard managers in wayland can't work anymore, by design. According to this comment it's the compositor's responsibility to implement clipboard managing, because apps are not privileged enough.

Basically it should be as simple as storing clipboard events incrementally in a file, instead than replacing the previous selection; for security and compatibility with existing set-ups, the default history length would be 1. Then it's up to third party apps to retrieve and display the clipboard's history (for example from sway-msg).

[acrisci]

The implementation would be a little tricky since we pass file descriptors between the windows and not the actual contents themselves.

[ddevault]

This should be possible, but it's not going to be done for some time.

[ghost]

Sure, no problem! Thank'you for your interest.

[meadofpoetry]

Wouldn't it be more sane to make a protocol for clipboard access with events on update? It can be useful not only for clipboard managers but also for dictioonaries and other stuff.

[emersion]

swaywm/wlr-protocols#20