Cannot paste clipboard text from the program xclip

[Ghibranalj]

Description
Cannot paste a text that is copied fron the program xclip. but 'paste as plain' text works

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Copy the content of a file to clipboard with the command xclip -sel c < text.txt
2. Paste it to whatsapp-for-linux to any input field
3. No text shows up

Expected behavior
The selected text gets pasted

Video demonstration
the video demonstration

Environment

• Arch Linux
• aur (yay)
• Cinnamon 5.0.7
• kernel 5.15.10-arch1-1

[xeco23]

Probably related to #177. I will keep both issues for now as I am not sure if this is only a Wayland issue.

[Ghibranalj]

I use gnome on x11 not on wayland

[xeco23]

I've tested this on both X11 and Wayland and couldn't reproduce. Could you please check again?

[xeco23]

Okay, I got it now. Strangely, this only happens with xclip.

[xeco23]

xclip -selection clipboard -t text/plain < test.txt
It works when you select the target as plain text. Somewhat, this explains the issue. I believe xclip copies text with a rich format by default and that's why it works when you click Paste as Plain Text and GTK framework have both of those paste options for convenience I guess, as compared to other frameworks. However, I don't understand why Paste option doesn't work for rich text formats and I am not sure what needs to be done at this point.

[xeco23]

Okay, I think I understand now;

If you try to paste a rich text, it depends on the application/website to accept this input. In this case, Whatsapp Web doesn't allow this.

So, either you should use Paste as a Plain Text / Ctrl+Shift+V or copy your text in a plain format.

Since this is expected behavior, I will close this if no one has an objection.

[Sadi58]

Thanks! Replacing the command xclip -i -selection clipboard with xclip -i -selection clipboard -t text/plain in a couple of my scripts, or/and - in some cases - using Ctr+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V works great for me.