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Building

wl-clipboard is a simple Meson project, so building it is just:

# Clone:
$ git clone https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard.git
$ cd wl-clipboard

# Build:
$ meson setup build
$ cd build
$ ninja

# Install
$ sudo meson install

wl-clipboard supports Linux and BSD systems, and is also known to work on Mac OS X and GNU Hurd. The only mandatory dependency is the wayland-client library (try package named wayland-devel or libwayland-dev).

Optional (but highly recommended) dependencies for building:

  • wayland-scanner
  • wayland-protocols (version 1.12 or later)

If these are found during configuration, wl-clipboard gets built with additional protocols support, which enables features such as primary selection support and --watch mode. If they are not found, Meson can optionally build them on the spot as subprojects.

Note that many compositors have dropped support for the wl_shell interface, which means wl-clipboard will not work under them unless built with both wayland-scanner and wayland-protocols. For this reason, you have to explicitly opt into allowing building without these dependencies by specifying -D protocols=auto (or -D protocols=disabled) when configuring with Meson.

Optional dependencies for running:

  • xdg-mime for content type inference in wl-copy (try package named xdg-utils)
  • /etc/mime.types file for type inference in wl-paste (try package named mime-support or mailcap)

If you're packaging wl-clipboard for a distribution, please consider making packages providing xdg-mime and /etc/mime.types weak dependencies of the package providing wl-clipboard, meaning ones that get installed along with wl-clipboard by default, but are not strictly required by it.