Unable to paste text into wine/proton apps in Plasma 6.5

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Hey all.

I’ve stumbled upon an issue where I can paste any text into a Wine/Proton app that I copied from native. This seems to be a Plasma 6.5 issue. It has been reported on the KDE bug site here

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Hey @jedicore ,
As far as Wine is concerned I took the following steps:

yay -S wl-clipboard clipboard-sync
systemctl --user enable --now clipboard-sync

wine notepad.exe
Copy/paste works in both directions on Plasma wayland 6.5.
Google is your friend.

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Thanks for the reply, but this isn’t a fix to the issue as the copy/paste worked fine before 6.5 update.

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I just opened up notepad via wine and copied and pasted text from firefox to it just fine.

5

I tkink I got a similar problem.

Since yesterday I cannot copy/paste my credentials/password from Keypass to the Star Citizen Launcher.

I worked around with CopyQ, after searching for an explanation and solution for a while.

Good to hear that it seems a bug and not me becoming crazy for believing that it worked before.

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I had a similar issue recently while using rustdesk flatpak

btw https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/3228

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BRO, it’s so broken!!!

Plasma Wayland > Wine
Plasma Wayland > VirtualBox VM

/// Doesn’t work AT ALL!! ///

~~ PEACE ~~
:victory_hand:t6:

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Worked like a charm. thanks

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I’m just learning how to use a shared clipboard.
with
QEMU / KVM
I have

systemctl status | grep clipboard
│ ├─clipboard-sync.service
│ │ ├─2098 clipboard-sync --hide-timestamp --log-level debug
│ │ └─7465 clipboard-sync --hide-timestamp --log-level debug

and GNOME guest works (wayland - wayland).
KDE wayland guest does not work here.

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Yo Bro!!
Worked great before 6.5!!!

Now for me doesn’t work in VirtualBox, no matter the guest, likely cuz VirtualBox is x11!
QEMU is x11 too?
:call_me_hand:t6:

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If you guys check the link to the KDE bug ticket in the original post, you’ll see that the issue is being worked on.

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I just updated my system and it fixed the issue. People at KDE work fast!

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nope

the fix is in master only for now, not in the latest 6.5.1 release

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Hi, KDE Neon 24.04 user here. Accidentally pressed upgrade :frowning:

Here a workaround (needs to run in background) using bashscript:

~/tools/wl-x11-pastefix.sh

cat ~/tools/wl-x11-pastefix.sh

#!/bin/bash

# 2025-10-30
# Since 6.5 Plasma Bug:  Paste into notepad++ or WInmerge not working in crossover
last=""
QDBUS_BIN="/usr/bin/qdbus6"
dbus-monitor "type='signal',interface='org.kde.klipper.klipper'" |
grep --line-buffered "signal" | while read -r _; do
    text="$("$QDBUS_BIN" org.kde.klipper /klipper getClipboardContents 2>/dev/null)"
    if [ -n "$text" ] && [ "$text" != "$last" ]; then
       #echo "New copy detected → syncing to X11 clipboard: $text"
       printf "%s" "$text" | xclip -selection clipboard
       last="$text"
    fi
done
exit 0
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Being lazy, I just discovered i can use teams-for-linux aur package as intermediate app.
After pasting into teams client and then copying from it, I can paste desired text into wine apps with no issues.
That’s enough for me, so I’ll just wait for Plasma 6.5.2 :laughing:

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finally kwin 6.5.2-1
updated, wine paste is back!

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Can confirm, it works now!

When I posted my previous comment, I had an update which fixed the wine paste until I rebooted. Now it works again!

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This worked right away, I think my problem was trying to run a flatpak containing a wine app. Thanks for the help!