What About Sync for Wayland on Linux?

I like using Gnome on Wayland. Sadly, there's no easy way to listen for changes made in the clipboard. We have an option which requires wlr-data-control, something that is available on Sway VM but not on Gnome. So rather than being impartial, here are ways you can make universal clipboard more acessible for yourself:

  • Center is all APIs under the hood. You can bind keyboard shortcuts to invoke these APIs and a tool like wl-clipboard to manipulate your OS' clipboard.

  • The command telltail install sync is soft-guarded to check for X11. If you provide XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 as environment variable and temporarily install xsel on your machine, then Sync would install. The benefit with this is that you would be able to paste using Ctrl+V and you would only have to care of binding a keyboard shortcut to send text to Telltail.

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