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Wayland clipboard broken till when?

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June 3, 2025
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It's been years at this point where 1Password has not worked properly on Wayland, having quirks here and there and never "officially" supported. I'm paying for a product that I genuinely believe is best, but can't even have copy functionality working on a major platform.

Workarounds to use X11 are no longer acceptable in 2025, and having a password manager that can't even copy from its desktop app overshadows all the other good things this product does.

I just ran into an issue where said workaround from "forcing 1Password to run on X11 so I can copy to Wayland" stopped working because of my compositor and after quickly reverting back the change I realized it's not worth my time trying to triage these issues on something I'm spending money for,.

I've stopped using this on my main system as a result. Since I still like the product, I'll wait, but come December, I'll come back to see if *complete* Wayland support is there (clipboard, rich prompt if you have them or disabled, no windowing issues, system authentication behaving, etc), and if it hasn't I'm not renewing my subscription nor will I be recommending this to anyone using Linux anymore. I will be using Bitwarden in the meantime, which does have copy/paste because it's really not that hard guys. And I'm sure it's not a dev problem, that's all I'm going to say.

For the people that are still reading, I really hope you can sit down and provide a clear timeline of when Wayland support is coming, what are you doing to fix these issues, and where. This is what your users need.

I genuinely believe you have the best password manager, and it saddens me to see the state of Linux support for years, and coming back to those user needs, if there aren't too many, if you don't have the will to allocate resources to it, then if anything you should drop it as a supported platform instead of getting users and paid customers you're not gonna work for. Sorry for the tone, see you in December.

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Best answer by 1P_SimonH

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share that Wayland clipboard support is now live in the production feed as of 1Password 8.11.0. Thank you everyone for your patience and if you'd like some of the backstory, you can see a post from a member of the team here.

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

Hello @blackxored! 👋

Thank you for reaching out and I'm sorry for the lack of news on this issue until now. There were some limitations in how the clipboard works in Wayland that were a bit of a blocker for 1Password's threat model, however our developers believe that they've found a solution that will work with Wayland while preserving security.

The team finished coding the solution earlier this week and we're currently testing this new functionality internally and we hope to include it in a beta release soon.

Keep your eyes on our release notes to be alerted to when this will be available.

-Dave

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personcenobites

I just tested clipboard support on a wayland-ized 1password beta 8.11.0-25 and it works for me now.

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blackxoredAuthor

I'm glad to see some progress, we'll see. Unrelated but I did try the Beta before, you know, and something you did to setup new tabs for SSH settings and others breaks when running on Hyprland (we see no tabs and the settings that were previously on that page no longer show, so you have to go edit the json and pray that works).

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

@blackxored

If you're interested, 1Password for Linux beta (8.11.0-25 or later) includes improvements for Wayland:

We’ve added secure clipboard support for Wayland environments.

You can find the beta here: Use 1Password beta releases. Make sure to launch 1Password in native Wayland mode using ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto 1password

-Dave

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blackxoredAuthor

That's awesome, I haven't tested yet, but should be able to this weekend or next week. But glad to see is finally getting addressed.

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zipkid

Hello, I just started using Linux again, after almost 20 years of Mac, and i was deeply unhappy about copying not working.

But i found this post and the Beta and I am happy to announce that it does seem to work!

Thanks 1Password for (finally) fixing this and thank you to blackxored for posting this!

I registered for this forum especially to write this reply :-)

Kind regards,

Zipkid.

1P_SimonHAnswer

Community Manager

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share that Wayland clipboard support is now live in the production feed as of 1Password 8.11.0. Thank you everyone for your patience and if you'd like some of the backstory, you can see a post from a member of the team here.

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john-smith

It seems like Flatpak version of the app doesn't have clipboard sorted.

I've tried starting the app with the variable noted above, but still no success.
Here's the error log that I get whenever I try to copy something to clipboard:

ERROR 2026-02-09T07:21:30.399+00:00 runtime-worker(ThreadId(3)) [1P:ffi/op-core-node/src/lib.rs:136] AppError at /mnt/ephemeral/builds/dev/core/core/service/op-service-field-action/src/lib.rs:414:13
OpeningClipboard(ClipboardError(An unknown error occured during a clipboard operation))

(node:2) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: OpeningClipboard(ClipboardError(An unknown error occured during a clipboard operation))
    at emitUnhandledRejectionWarning (node:internal/process/promises:301:15)
    at warnWithErrorCodeUnhandledRejectionsMode (node:internal/process/promises:409:5)
    at processPromiseRejections (node:internal/process/promises:475:17)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:106:32)
(node:2) Error: OpeningClipboard(ClipboardError(An unknown error occured during a clipboard operation))

That's on 8.12.0 x64 with Fedora Linux and Wayland (enabled by default, at least with Gnome)

UPD: I've tried RPM version of the app, and it works just fine without any tricks.

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