Issue

I’m on Gentoo, running Sway (and thus Wayland.) The clipboard has never really worked on Wayland, it’s consistently a mess. Talks with @chrisduerr and @cmr suggested that it should be fixed on master.

Today I compiled master with rustc 1.34.2 to try, and it seems like it is still not working.

How to reproduce

1. Running Sway (might work on other Wayland WMs?)
2. Open Firefox with GDK_BACKEND=wayland set.
3. Select and copy some text on Firefox.
4. Switch to another workspace where Alacritty is.
5. Paste text (ctrl+shift+v)

The result should be a freeze and eventually a crash.

On a release build I get this:

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: EventsLoopClosed', src/libcore/result.rs:997:5
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

On a debug build with backtracing I get this:

alacritty on  master via 𝗥 v1.34.2 [I] ➜ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cr
   Compiling alacritty v0.3.2 (/home/bemeurer/src/alacritty/alacritty)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 7.18s
     Running `target/debug/alacritty`
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: EventsLoopClosed', src/libcore/result.rs:997:5
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.
stack backtrace:
   0: std::sys::unix::backtrace::tracing::imp::unwind_backtrace
             at src/libstd/sys/unix/backtrace/tracing/gcc_s.rs:39
   1: std::sys_common::backtrace::print
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:70
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:58
   2: std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:200
   3: std::panicking::default_hook
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:215
   4: std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:478
   5: std::panicking::continue_panic_fmt
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:385
   6: rust_begin_unwind
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:312
   7: core::panicking::panic_fmt
             at src/libcore/panicking.rs:85
   8: core::result::unwrap_failed
             at /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.34.2/work/rustc-1.34.2-src/src/libcore/macros.rs:17
   9: <core::result::Result<T, E>>::unwrap
             at /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/rust-1.34.2/work/rustc-1.34.2-src/src/libcore/result.rs:798
  10: winit::platform::platform::wayland::keyboard::init_keyboard::{{closure}}
             at /home/bemeurer/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/winit-0.19.1/src/platform/linux/wayland/keyboard.rs:111
  11: smithay_client_toolkit::keyboard::implement_kbd::{{closure}}::{{closure}}::{{closure}}
             at /home/bemeurer/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/smithay-client-toolkit-0.4.5/src/keyboard/mod.rs:720


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