Drag & Drop not working when Firefox is running under XWayland (Linux)

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Steps to reproduce

Open Firefox browser in (Arch) Linux with XWayland and the drag & drop features in Obsidian stop working. When Firefox is closed, the drag & drop features are working again.

Expected result

The drag & drop should work.

Actual result

Can’t drag & drop files into folders in the sidebar
Can’t drag files over the editor area, etc.
Instead, the dragged file’s obsidian URL (obsidian:// …) wants to open in Firefox.

Environment

  • Operating system:
    • Arch Linux
    • Sway Window Manager 1:1.6-1
    • XWayland 21.1.1-1
    • Firefox 88
  • Obsidian version: Obsidian-0.11.13.AppImage

Additional information

There is no problem when Firefox is running in native Wayland (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox), and no problem with Chromium. No problem when Firefox is running under Xorg.

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We don’t have that fine level of control of drag and drop. This is all handled by lower level systems.

Either open this bug report at XWayland or Firefox or Electron.

5

Download the latest version of obsidian from the website, see if electron 12 solves the issue.

6

It didn’t solve for me, but maybe it’s something with Wayland or Sway WM. I will do a system upgrade later, maybe that will help. Not a big problem, because I switched to Chromium (not only because of this but for other reasons, too) and I can use Firefox in native Wayland if I need.