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How the clipboard works

by @WhyNotHugo whynothugo.nl 5 min read

Reading how copy-paste works from the Wayland specification is non-trivial unless you understand a lot of how desktop computing works and Wayland internal. It took me quite a while to figure it all out, though once you get there, it seems quite obvious.

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