Unable to Paste on Wayland

[mastermach50]

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I am able to copy and cut text from zed and even paste it in other windows, but I am unable to paste text in zed, neither using Ctr + V nor the editor: paste command

• my keymap.json file is empty (I am not using any custom shortcuts)
• my WM does not have any shortcuts that conflict with paste
• cut, copy and paste work properly in and between other windows
• hyprctl clients tells me that zed is using wayland and not xwayland

Environment

Zed: v1.0.0 (Zed)
OS: Linux 1.0.0
Memory: 15 GiB
Architecture: x86_64

Neofetch output just in case

OS: NixOS 24.05.20240519.6c0b7a9 (Uakari) x86_64
Host: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M1603QA
Kernel: 6.6.31
Uptime: 17 mins
Packages: 2174 (nix-system)
Shell: nu 0.93.0
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: Hyprland (Wayland)
Terminal: zed
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 4.463GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
Memory: 2988MiB / 15394MiB

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If applicable, attach your ~/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log file to this issue.

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[Titoot]

Running Zed in x11 mode fixed it. WAYLAND_DISPLAY='' Zed

[mastermach50]

@Titoot that method does work thanks.

But shouldn't this be fixed?

I am not closing this issue right now

[croots]

Also having this issue, cant copy paste on wayland.

Biggest adoption issue for me, pretty much expected for a text based editor.

[apekros]

Same issue, have to use WAYLAND_DISPLAY='' to resolve the issue on Arch/Hyprland

[spikespaz]

I politely posit that this issue ought to be marked as high-severity. Copy/paste does not work on Wayland desktops, where Xwayland may be unreliable or unavailable.

[DissolveDZ]

still hoping that this gets fixed soon, really annoying especially since xwayland is really glitchy on nvidia cards

[skewballfox]

So I just tried to reproduce on 2 different systems, one with gnome and an nvidia gpu, and the other using sway with an amdgpu, both were able to paste content into zed.

For the people who are having this issue:

• are you using the version on main?
• how are you launching zed?
• if from the terminal, are there any messages appearing when attempting to paste?
• would you mind pasting the output of the command env? I mainly care about the wayland specific variables

[Zollerboy1]

@skewballfox I had used zed under wayland (specifically hyprland) without any problems for quite some time now, but I just updated my zed version to 0.140.4-pre and suddenly this issue popped up. The behavior is quite strange, as copying and cutting text works just fine, only paste doesn't work at all (i.e. I can copy text in zed and paste it in another program, but I cannot paste text in zed regardless of whether it was copied in zed or somewhere else).

I'm launching zed using the cli, but I've also tried to launch the zed-editor binary directly, both through the desktop file and manually – the behavior is the same for all launch methods.

When launching zed directly from the terminal, I get a few error messages directly at launch but nothing afterwards (at least not when trying to paste something):

[2024-06-15T22:35:25+02:00 ERROR util] crates/gpui/src/platform/linux/platform.rs:109: Portal request failed: org.freedesktop.zbus.Error: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
[2024-06-15T22:35:25+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:326: could not find git binary path

Caused by:
    Platform<LinuxPlatform>::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet

This is (most of) my env output:

SHELL=/bin/zsh
GTK_THEME=Breeze-Dark
HYPRLAND_CMD=Hyprland
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session2
CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
XDG_BACKEND=wayland
DESKTOP_SESSION=hyprland
XCURSOR_SIZE=16
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=Hyprland
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
_=/usr/bin/env
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;xcb
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=1
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.archlinux.org 
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
XCURSOR_THEME=WhiteSur-cursors
GDK_BACKEND=wayland,x11
GDK_SCALE=2
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2
KITTY_WINDOW_ID=2
TERM=xterm-kitty
COLORTERM=truecolor
TERMINFO=/usr/lib/kitty/terminfo
KITTY_INSTALLATION_DIR=/usr/lib/kitty
PAGER=less
LESS=-R

I'm running wl-clip-persist, if that has anything to do with the problem.

[unkindypie]

Same issue after update on arch/wayland

[mastermach50]

@skewballfox My issues are the same as described by @Zollerboy1 (Hyprland, no errors in console when pasting)

The only difference is that I am on 0.136.2.

Similarly for me this paste issue was not present in an older version if I remember correctly (not sure which version).

Hence the issue is present in versions 0.136.2 to 0.140.4-pre

[mastermach50]

Here is my env

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COLORTERM=truecolor
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DESKTOP_SESSION=hyprland
DIRS_POSITION=0
DISPLAY=:0
EDITOR=hx
ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland
ELM_SCALE=1.8
GDK_BACKEND=wayland
GDK_DPI_SCALE=1
GDK_SCALE=1.8
GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/nix/store/g19314860ijffhbksw25pl2rcagk7wcx-dconf-0.40.0-lib/lib/gio/modules
GTK_A11Y=none
GTK_THEME=Colloid:dark
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
NO_AT_BRIDGE=1
PAGER=less
QML2_IMPORT_PATH=/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-6/qml:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-6/qml:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/lib/qt-6/qml:/nix/profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/nix/profile/lib/qt-6/qml:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/lib/qt-6/qml:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/lib/qt-6/qml:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/qt-6/qml:/run/current-system/sw/lib/qt-5.15.12/qml:/run/current-system/sw/lib/qt-6/qml
QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/nix/profile/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/mozilla/plugins/:/run/current-system/sw/lib/mozilla/plugins/
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
QT_FONT_DPI=85
QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-6/plugins:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/lib/qt-6/plugins:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/lib/qt-6/plugins:/nix/profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/nix/profile/lib/qt-6/plugins:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/lib/qt-6/plugins:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/lib/qt-6/plugins:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/qt-6/plugins:/run/current-system/sw/lib/qt-5.15.12/plugins:/run/current-system/sw/lib/qt-6/plugins
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=breeze
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
SHELL=/run/current-system/sw/bin/nu
SHLVL=0
TERM=xterm-kitty
TERMINFO=/nix/store/cmkk0l1qs0hph06nlp0ji1arkpxp44xs-kitty-0.34.1/lib/kitty/terminfo
TERMINFO_DIRS=/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/terminfo:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/terminfo:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/share/terminfo:/nix/profile/share/terminfo:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/share/terminfo:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/share/terminfo:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/terminfo:/run/current-system/sw/share/terminfo
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
XCURSOR_PATH=/home/mathew/.icons:/home/mathew/.local/share/icons:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/icons:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/pixmaps:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/icons:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/pixmaps:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/share/icons:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/share/pixmaps:/nix/profile/share/icons:/nix/profile/share/pixmaps:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/share/icons:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/share/pixmaps:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/share/icons:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/share/pixmaps:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/icons:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/pixmaps:/run/current-system/sw/share/icons:/run/current-system/sw/share/pixmaps
XCURSOR_SIZE=20
XCURSOR_THEME=Bibata-Modern-Classic
XDG_BACKEND=wayland
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/etc/xdg:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/etc/xdg:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/etc/xdg:/nix/profile/etc/xdg:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/etc/xdg:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/etc/xdg:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/sw/etc/xdg
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/nix/store/yk6rngpjhyphjbxa4gyxm74889l6sdd5-desktops/share:/home/mathew/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/home/mathew/.nix-profile/share:/nix/profile/share:/home/mathew/.local/state/nix/profile/share:/etc/profiles/per-user/mathew/share:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share:/run/current-system/sw/share
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_VTNR=2
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
__ETC_PROFILE_DONE=1
__NIXOS_SET_ENVIRONMENT_DONE=1

[muqiuhan]

I'm running Zed on Wayland using Nvidia don't have this issue:

Here is my env:

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AUDIODRIVER=pulseaudio
COLORFGBG=15;0
COLORTERM=truecolor
CONFIG_SITE=/usr/share/site/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CPU=x86_64
CSHEDIT=emacs
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.opensuse.org/ 
DESKTOP_SESSION=plasmawayland
DISPLAY=:1
FROM_HEADER=
GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/muqiu/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/muqiu/.config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/muqiu/.gtkrc:/home/muqiu/.config/gtkrc
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale,UTF-8,ISO-8859-15,CP1252
HISTSIZE=50000
HOME=/home/muqiu
HOST=localhost.localdomain
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
HOSTTYPE=x86_64
ICEAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/iceauth_uhdmgO
INPUT_METHOD=fcitx
INVOCATION_ID=b340b6d4bf1044a48955df0fb690d5a6
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:844659
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java-21-openjdk-21
KDE_APPLICATIONS_AS_SCOPE=1
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
KDE_SESSION_UID=1000
KDE_SESSION_VERSION=6
KGLOBALACCELD_PLATFORM=org.kde.kwin
KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE=:1.547
KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION=/Sessions/1
KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW=/Windows/1
KONSOLE_VERSION=240500
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LESS=-M -I -R
LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s
LESSKEY=/usr/etc/lesskey.bin
LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s
LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no
LOGNAME=muqiu
MACHTYPE=x86_64
MANAGERPID=24254
MANPATHISSET=yes
MINICOM=-c on
MORE=-sl
MOZ_GMP_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/gmp-gmpopenh264/system-installed
NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1
OLDPWD=/home/muqiu
OSTYPE=linux-gnu
PAGER=less
PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN=/run/user/1000/kwallet5.socket
PROFILEHOME=
PROFILEREAD=true
PWD=/home/muqiu
PYTHONSTARTUP=/etc/pythonstart
QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi
QT_WAYLAND_RECONNECT=1
SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx
SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/24423,unix/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/24423
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SHELL_SESSION_ID=cbfd2e8871e24edc97160568e89499d8
SOCKS5_SERVER=
SOCKS_PROXY=
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=24300
TERM=xterm-256color
USER=muqiu
VENDOR=suse
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
WINDOWID=3
WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/startplasma-x11
XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/xauth_jNGneD
XDG_ACTIVATION_TOKEN=kwin-22
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/muqiu/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg:/usr/etc/xdg
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/muqiu/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_ID=5
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session2
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_VTNR=3
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us
XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=pc105+inet
XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
XNLSPATH=/usr/share/X11/nls

[bluthej]

Also on Arch/Hyprland, doing what @apekros suggests does solve the pasting issue for me but then I can no longer scroll with the touchpad, while scrolling works if I launch zed without WAYLAND_DISPLAY=''

[skewballfox]

Some relevant context.

• for wayland, the clipboard is being set here. The function create_clipboards_from_external comes from copypasta, which is calling smithay-clipboard

A couple more questions:

• Is anyone experiencing this issue not using hyprland? @apekros, @DissolveDZ?
• Can you guys copy/paste from/to Zed? I'm kind of wondering if primary is being used instead of clipboard on ctrl+v,ctrl+c

[croots]

I'm also on Hyprland so it seems like it indeed might be specific to that compositor. Haven't tested it but #12405 purports to fix the issue (or at least pasting in one direction?). Here's my env if it helps (redacting anything that looks like a key at a cursory glance)

PWD=/home/USR
MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=/home/USR/micromamba
SHLVL=2
GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus
INPUT_METHOD=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
LOGNAME=USR
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
CONDA_PREFIX=/home/USR/micromamba
XDG_BACKEND=wayland
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
CONDA_SHLVL=1
XDG_VTNR=1
MAMBA_EXE=/usr/bin/micromamba
HOME=/home/USR
MAMBA_SHLVL=0
STARSHIP_SESSION_KEY=[REDACTED]
CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(base) 
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
HYPRLAND_CMD=Hyprland
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=907
HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE=[REDACTED]
LANG=C.UTF-8
CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=/run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
XDG_SEAT=seat0
TERM=xterm-256color
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.archlinux.org 
STARSHIP_SHELL=fish
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-getty.slice/getty@tty1.service/memory.pressure
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland
COLORTERM=truecolor
INVOCATION_ID=e139eb7036bc499799302eebfe37a5bf
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
OLDPWD=/home/croots
SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE=[REDACTED]
USER=USR
PATH=/home/USR/micromamba/bin:/home/USR/micromamba/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
XDG_SESSION_ID=1
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/USR
CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV=base
DISPLAY=:0

[skewballfox]

I'm also on Hyprland so it seems like it indeed might be specific to that compositor. Haven't tested it but #12405 purports to fix the issue (or at least pasting in one direction?). Here's my env if it helps (redacting anything that looks like a key at a cursory glance)

I completely missed that one, my bad. I guess the best course of action is wait for that to be merged and test again. If it's not fixed then, I'll open a PR then (if someone doesn't beat me to the punch)

[unkindypie]

Still not fixed on 0.140.5 for arch/hyprland. Tried also to run the version from latest commit (zed-git arch package), it didn't launch at all
@mikayla-maki

[GioPan04]

@unkindypie The refactor of the clipboard implementation is not mentioned in any release changelog, so it's probably not been released yet

[croots]

@unkindypie AUR zed-get is not configured to build from the latest commit, its configured to build from the latest release. Cloning the repo and building from source has fixed this issue for me.

[Zollerboy1]

@unkindypie It's fixed in 0.141.1-pre for me. You could also use the zed-preview-bin AUR package if you want to get the latest preview versions.

[unkindypie]

Got you, thank you I didn't know that git package doesn't use latest commit version

[lufog]

@unkindypie It's fixed in 0.141.1-pre for me. You could also use the zed-preview-bin AUR package if you want to get the latest preview versions.

Strange, paste from the clipboard on Wayland still doesn't work for me in 0.141.3 (from Arch repo).

[mastermach50]

Same here. Issue resolved on 141.2

[Milor123]

this is really frustrating, wayland with kde plasma 6, it's a lot of applications that get booted and sometimes I have to restart plasma or I can't use clipbaord on some. I am using manjaro :/