Cannot copy from any electron app

[hardy mesa]

Hello, my problem is that I cannot copy from any electron app (obsidian-discord-brave-etc...)
Distro: Arch Linux

[warped kestrel]

You have to implement a context menu yourself if you want right-click cut/copy/paste but the keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v) should still work without that, have you tried?

I have a fairly minimal example in my Electron starter project https://github.com/clubside/electron-shell

[hardy mesa]

neither context menu nor keyboard shortcuts work

[warped kestrel]

Hmm... well there is no contextmenu by default as I mentioned, weird that the keyboard shortcuts don't work at a system level but they are included in the contextmenu I included in my repo.

[hardy mesa]

yes that is very weird any app that doesn't use electron copy is working and there is something I have to mention it which is after I try to copy the text many times but not a specific times it is just randomly the text copied but just in my clipboard history then i have to choose it from clipboard history

clipboard utility: wl-copy
clipboard history: cliphist

[warped kestrel]

I assume electron-copy is some kind of library?

[hardy mesa]

hmmm I don't understand sorry

[warped kestrel]

Sorry I think I read electron-copy where you wrote "electron copy" 😛 I recommend either copying the single file and adding the one line to main.js from my example to your project or adapting what you see. Let me do a quick edit and I can paste the code here if you prefer rather than looking at the repo.

[hardy mesa]

sorry but my problem is not while I build an app my problem is that I cannot copy from other's electron apps

to be clear obsidian is an electron app so I cannot copy from obsidian

if there is a text in obsidian I cannot copy it

[warped kestrel]

h, because they haven't implemented a contextmenu in their app. I guess I'd have to see one to know if it's a case of them deliberately stopping the default system-wide clipboard functions.

[hardy mesa]

and it is not just in obsidian this issue with all electron apps

[warped kestrel]

I'm downloading now on Windows.

[hardy mesa]

when I click copy it didn't copy

and even I press Ctrl + C

[warped kestrel]

I just did a ctrl-c and switched to Notepad and did ctrl-v with no issue.

[hardy mesa]

hmmm so is it a linux issue?

[warped kestrel]

Did the same thing with their contextmenu.

You mentioned a clipboard utility wl-copy could that be getting in the way?

[hardy mesa]

neither context menu nor keyboard shortcut works

[hardy mesa]

hmmmm I will try another clipboard utility

[warped kestrel]

It's doubtful that it's platform related as those are system-wide APIs that Electron uses so unless something is gettinmg in the way I don't know. I'm afraid I'm in the middle of something otherwise I'd put a keyboard and moiuse on my Ubuntu box and test it for you.

[hardy mesa]

that is kind from you thanks I really don't why is that happening and what makes is weird is just happened with electron apps only

https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

[warped kestrel]

Try just uninstalling your clipboard utility as a test and just use the system's clipboard. If that fixes it yes you should contact whoever makes the utility and mention it. If it does not solve the problem I will find the time later today to use my Linux box to test Obsidian and the clipboard and see if I get different results.

[hardy mesa]

this is the utility I use to copy/paste over the os

[hardy mesa]

okay I will try now and tell you what happened

very nice it work

so the problem from the clipboard utility

thanks a lot

and sorry for bothering you

new noticed thing:
the problem actually from wl-clip-persist not from wl-clipboard
when I use

wl-clip-persist --clipboard regular

the issue happened while when I use

wl-clip-persist --clipboard primary

the issue gone