micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
Xwayland is launched when wl-clipboard is installed
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 29.6k
- Forks
- 1.4k
- Avg merge
- 2d 18h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 10
Description
Description of the problem or steps to reproduce
Have wl-clipboard installed
have xwayland installed
run micro, it launches xwayland, when copying/cutting it also launches xwayland
Specifications
Version: 2.0.13
Commit hash: 68d88b57
Compiled on October 22, 2023
OS: Arch Linux, sway with xwayland
Terminal: Foot
Xwayland is pretty heavy service, even if it auto terminates, it consumes 141MB for few seconds
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. First reproduce micro under Sway with wl-clipboard and Xwayland installed, then trace the clipboard-related startup path; done means normal clipboard operations no longer launch Xwayland while clipboard behavior remains functional.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, linux
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100