WL-CLIPBOARD(1) General Commands Manual WL-CLIPBOARD(1) (NAME) wl-clipboard - Wayland (SYNOPSIS) wl-copy [--primary] [--type mime/type] [text...] wl-paste [--primary] [--type mime/type] . (DESCRIPTION) wl-copy (text) Wayland . (text) wl-copy . wl-paste Wayland . wl-copy wl-paste MIME . wl-copy xdg-mime(1) . wl-paste MIME . --type . (OPTIONS) wl- clipboard getopt(3) C . -- ( - ) . -p, --primary <<>> (primary) . -o, --paste-once ( wl-copy) . . XWayland . -f, --foreground ( wl-copy) wl-copy (fork) wl- copy . -c, --clear ( wl-copy) . -n, --trim-newline ( wl-copy) . -n, --no-newline ( wl-paste) . --watch . -t mime/type, --type mime/type MIME . wl-copy . wl-paste . MIME image/png wl-paste text image MIME . -s seat-name, --seat seat-name wl-copy wl-paste (seat) . Wayland . default seat0 udev(7) ENV{WL_SEAT} . weston-info(1) . wl-copy wl-paste . . -l, --list-types ( wl-paste) MIME . -w command..., --watch command... ( wl-paste) command . . wl-paste CLIPBOARD_STATE ( ). data- control wlroots . --sensitive ( wl-copy) . . CLIPBOARD_STATE=sensitive ( ). -v, --version wl-clipboard . -h, --help . (ENVIRONMENT) WAYLAND_DISPLAY wl-copy wl-paste Wayland . Wayland Wayland . Wayland . wl_display_connect(3) . WAYLAND_DEBUG 1 wayland-client(7) wl-copy wl-paste Wayland stderr . CLIPBOARD_STATE wl-paste --watch . : CLIPBOARD_STATE=data . . CLIPBOARD_STATE=nil . /dev/null . ( wl- copy < /dev/null ). CLIPBOARD_STATE=clear wl-copy --clear. nil /dev/null . CLIPBOARD_STATE=sensitive . . CLIPBOARD_STATE CLIPBOARD_STATE ( ). Wayland wl-clipboard clear sensitive . wl-clipboard CLIPBOARD_STATE clear sensitive x-kde- passwordManagerHint MIME . CLIPBOARD_STATE wl-clipboard Wayland . paste(1) SerenityOS CLIPBOARD_STATE . (FILES) /etc/mime.types wl-paste MIME . (BUGS) Wayland data-control wlroots wl- clipboard : () . ( ) . Wayland wl-clipboard (hang) . MIME . : wl-clipboard MIME application/something . MIME wl-copy --type text/plain. wl-copy --clear wl-copy --paste-once . GTK 3 "\r\n" ( CR LF ) . wl- clipboard . GTK 3 wl-paste dos2unix(1) . : wl-copy wl-copy MIME . (EXAMPLES) : $ wl-copy Hello world! : wl-copy -- --long ~/Downloads: $ ls ~/Downloads | wl-copy : $ wl-copy < ~/Pictures/photo.png : $ wl-copy "!!" : $ wl-paste -n > clipboard.txt : $ wl-paste | sort | wl-copy pastebin : $ wl-paste --watch nc paste.example.org 5555 (AUTHORS) Sergey Bugaev. (REPORTING BUGS) wl-clipboard . Wayland WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 wl-clipboard . (COPYRIGHT) (C) 2018-2026 Sergey Bugaev. GPLv3+: GPL . : . . (SEE ALSO) xclip(1), xsel(1), wl-clipboard-x11(1) wl-clipboard 2026-03-22 WL-CLIPBOARD(1)