element-web: Pasting images into Element Desktop under Wayland does not work

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start element desktop nightly in wayland mode: element-desktop-nightly --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
  2. Attempt to paste an image into the composer
  3. Nothing happens

Outcome

What did you expect?

Image upload dialogue with preview

What happened instead?

Nothing

Operating system

Arch Linux

Application version

Element Nightly version: 2021110101 Olm version: 3.2.3

How did you install the app?

element-desktop-nightly-bin AUR package

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 15 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

There are some related notes on EW not working well in other ways with Wayland due to not being on Electron 14 in https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/issues/728

It looks like that was being hit on room load and not on pasting the image.