Micro Editor can not be opened when wl-clipboard is empty

[Zesko]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

1. Use KDE Plasma Wayland instead X11
2. Install micro and wl-clipboard instead xclip.
3. Cleanup Klipper (KDE System Tray Clipboard) that will be empty.
4. Try to open micro in Konsole (KDE default terminal)

Result: Micro can not be opened in Konsole when using wl-clipboard because wl-paste is empty or no wl-paste.
Micro waits until copy any text from other application, then it will be opened.

Specifications

$ micro --version
Version: 2.0.11
Commit hash: 225927b9
Compiled on August 09, 2022

Commit hash: 225927b
OS: Manjaro KDE Wayland (Latest version, testing branch)
Terminal: konsole (KDE default terminal)

[Fryboyter]

I can confirm the problem, as well as the mentioned workaround, with micro 2.0.11 and Terminator or Konsole under Arch Linux with KDE Plasma Wayland.

Version 2.0.10, however, works in my case.

[maxkapur]

I have a similar issue on the KDE spin of Fedora 37 on Wayland. Micro starts up just fine (even after cleaning up Klipper), but behaves as though it has its own clipboard:

1. Highlight text outside of micro, e.g. from a webbrowser
2. Open micro and press Ctrl+V.

Micro prints the Pasted clipboard message to the status bar, but no text is pasted. On the other hand, copy and paste with Ctrl+C/V work just fine within a micro document.

The problem persists whether or not xsel and/or xclip are installed.

The problem occurs in Alacritty and Konsole with either fish or bash as the shell.

Workaround: Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste into micro from the global clipboard and Ctrl+Shift+C to copy from micro to the global clipboard.

System info:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 (KDE Plasma)    
     CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37
          Kernel: Linux 6.0.8-300.fc37.x86_64
    Architecture: x86-64

~> micro --version
Version: 2.0.11
Commit hash: 225927b
Compiled on August 25, 2022

[Zesko]

Here is the duplicate:

#2662

[Zesko]

Uninstall wl-clipboard
Install wl-clipboard-rs to fix this issue.

wl-clipboard is the issue:
bugaevc/wl-clipboard#149

[Zesko]

Update:

I guess, kwin_wayland is the issue with wl-clipboard. Both are not compatible well together.

Gnome Wayland has no issue.

[Will-W]

FYI, I am having issues on Gnome Wayland. If wl-clipboard is uninstalled - micro starts fine, if installed - micro hangs at startup.
I'm pretty sure it's a wl-clipboard issue though, because if I try to use wl-copy or wl-paste they hang as described in the bug above.

I need to look into it more because I think it's related to the state of my machine - I'm SSH'd into a machine that has locked with the screen off, and I get the problem. I don't get the problem when the machine is unlocked.

[Zesko]

I am having issues on Gnome Wayland. If wl-clipboard is uninstalled - micro starts fine, if installed - micro hangs at startup.
I'm pretty sure it's a wl-clipboard issue though, because if I try to use wl-copy or wl-paste they hang as described in the bug above.

The issue was already fixed for me when using:

micro version 2.0.13
wl-clipload version 2.2.1
KDE Plasma Wayland 6.1.4

I can no longer reproduce the problem today. I'm not sure why it affects your Gnome Wayland, I thought Gnome Wayland uses its own native function of copy and paste.