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#2970 enable copying and pasting of user name and password on Wayland

Milestone: KeePass

Status: open

Owner: nobody

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2026-02-23

Created: 2026-02-17

Creator: Hiroo Ono

Private: No

The attached patches make use of wl-copy and wl-paste commands from wl-clipboard[1] to make copying and pasting of user name and password on Wayland on Unixes.

[1] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

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patch-KeePass_Util_ClipboardUtil.Unix.cs

patch-KeePass_Util_ClipboardUtil.cs

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Dominik Reichl - 2026-02-20

The workaround using xsel is disabled by default, because Mono's clipboard methods seem to work pretty well in the meanwhile (I tested it on various systems, including ones with Wayland).

So, on which operating system have you encountered an issue with the clipboard?

Thanks and best regards,
Dominik

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Hiroo Ono - 2026-02-23

I am using keepass 2.56 on compositor hikari on FreeBSD 15-STABLE.
What I am experiencing is that copy and paste from keepass is limited to XWayland applications.

keepass: XWayland application

lxterminal: XWayland application

firefox: Wayland application

kitty: Wayland application

copy and paste from keepass(1) to lxterminal(2) is possible, but to firefox(3) or kitty(4) is not.
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