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9. [Qt](#qt)
10. [Clipboard](#clipboard)
11. [Input Method](#input-method)
12. [GTK](#gtk)
12. [Gtk](#gtk)

# 1. Introduction {#introduction}

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- [swappy](https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy)

```
grim -g "$(slurp)"
grim -g "$(slurp)" - | swappy -f -
grim - | wl-copy
```

> Note: Remember to use quotation marks around `$(slurp)`

# 7. Session Lock {#session-lock}

`labwc` supports the [ext-session-lock] and [ext-idle-notify] protocols and you can use clients such
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or by applying its patch. Then, you can enable IME with [text-input-v1] by
running Chromium with `--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-wayland-ime`.

# 12. GTK {#gtk}
# 12. Gtk {#gtk}

## 12.1 File Chooser

In some recent GTK (>=4.16) applications (e.g. Gnome's Simple-Scan and Clapper)
the File Chooser defaults to using xdg-portal technology which may not work
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`$HOME/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/` but please see [portal-user-home] for
further details.

## 12.2 Compose

From version `4.20.0`, accented characters cannot be typed in GTK4 applications
without using the `ibus` package. See [#3068] for details.

[#3068]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/3068

[labwc-portals.conf]: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/blob/master/data/labwc-portals.conf
[portal-user-home]: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/portals.conf.html

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