(Almost) fixing clipboard access

[artur_]

It is possible to install the required components for Waydroid clipboard access in Ubuntu Touch, and access them from outside Waydroid. Still remains to be discovered how to transfer those to the system clipboard.

1. Install pyclip
   1. Install pip

      1. Set up a writable /usr/local

         1. As root, copy /usr/local to /home/.usr-local

            # cp -r /usr/local /home/.usr-local
            

         2. Create /etc/systemd/system/usr-local.mount with the following contents:

            [Unit]
            Before=basic.target
            
            [Mount]
            What=/home/.usr-local
            Where=/usr/local
            Options=bind
            
            [Install]
            WantedBy=basic.target
            

         3. Reload systemd units with systemctl daemon-reload
         4. Enable the mount with systemctl enable --now usr-local.mount

      2. Install pip

         # wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
         # python3 get-pip.py --break-system-packages
         

   2. Install pyclip

      # pip install pyclip --break-system-packages
      

2. Install wl-clipboard
   1. Install the nix package manager
      1. Ubuntu Touch lacks "xz", so we will download and decompress the nix tarball on another computer:

         $ wget https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.31.2/nix-2.31.2-aarch64-linux.tar.xz
         $ xz -d nix-2.31.2-aarch64-linux.tar.xz
         $ adb push nix-2.31.2-aarch64-linux.tar /home/phablet/
         

      2. Install nix on the phone:

         $ mkdir -p /tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack/unpack
         $ tar -xf /home/phablet/nix-2.31.2-aarch64-linux.tar -C /tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack/unpack
         $ /tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack/unpack/nix-2.31.2-aarch64-linux/install
         $ rm -r /tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack
         

   2. Install wl-clipboard

      $ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.wl-clipboard
      

3. Reboot your phone (just in case)
4. Test copying from Waydroid
   1. Copy something in Waydroid
   2. Open the terminal app
   3. Run wl-paste to retrieve the contents
5. Test pasting to Waydroid
   1. Open the terminal app
   2. Run echo hi | wl-copy
   3. Paste in Waydroid

[kugiigi]

Someone actually has a weird discovery. You can copy paste between Waydroid and Mimi browser. You can't even do it anymore inside Waydroid since A13
No one knows yet why that is the case.
It won't help with accessing clipboard from and to Waydroid though since Mimi browser also can't access system clipboard but perhaps something to look at