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Copy stopped working on Ubuntu #3483

@gkorland

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@gkorland

Describe the bug

marking the text with the mouse and then right click does show the message "copied to clipboard" but nothing was really copied to clipboard, same with ctrl+c nothing is really copied.

Also since the CLI capture the mouse right click "standard" terminal copy is not working either.

Logs showing

2026-05-23T08:34:15.690Z [WARNING] writeToClipboard: native clipboard write failed; relied on OSC 52: Error: Failed to set text: Failed to write clipboard content: A required Wayland protocol (ext-data-control, or wlr-data-control version 1) is not supported by the compositor

Installing

sudo apt install wl-clipboard

Doesn't solve it.

It used to work on previous versions.

Affected version

1.0.51

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Open copilot
  2. Select text with the mouse
  3. Right click on the mouse
  4. try to paste

Expected behavior

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Additional context

  • Ubuntu 26.04
  • Terminals: Ptyxis Terminal, GNOME Terminal

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    area:input-keyboardKeyboard shortcuts, keybindings, copy/paste, clipboard, mouse, and text inputarea:platform-linuxLinux-specific: Wayland, X11, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, ARM, terminal emulators

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