Paste image from clipboard on Linux no longer works

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Steps to reproduce

  • Open an image in the web browser, such as: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/65011256
  • Right click on the image
  • Click “Copy Image” to copy the image (not the URL) to your system clipboard
  • Open Obsidian
  • Press shift-ctrl-v to paste the image from the clipboard to a note.

Expected result

In Obsidian 0.13.23, this would write the clipboard image to a file and then paste a link to the file in the note.

Actual result

In Obsidian 0.13.31 and 0.14.2 (latest), shift-ctrl-v doesn’t do anything anymore. Nothing happens on the screen. Nothing gets written to disk. Nothing at all happens.

In addition, I’m seeing these logs in the terminal.

[27533:0402/173314.243945:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!

Environment

  • Operating system: Arch Linux, GNOME Shell 41.5, XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
  • Web Browser: Chrome Version 100.0.4896.60 (Build official) (64 bits)
  • Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v0.13.31
	Installer version: v0.13.31
	Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:55:33 +0000 5.17.1-arch1-1
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: insider
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Legacy editor: off
	Base theme: light
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Safe mode: off
	Plugins installed: 1
	Plugins enabled: 1
		1: Dataview

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JavaScript Console:

app.js:1 Obsidian Developer Console
main.ts:103 Dataview: Version 0.4.26 Loaded
index.ts:154 Dataview: Task & metadata parsing queued in 0.009s.
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Post a screen recording of this happening in the help vault. You must use the latest public version installed using one of the official packages for linux at https://obsidian.md (No Aur packages).

Also, it’s ctrl-v to attach an image not ctrl-shift-v.

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Here’s a screen recording comparing ctrl-v and shift-ctrl-v on Obsidian 0.13 vs 0.14.

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Ok, ctrl-v should work in 0.14.3+. If it doesn’t, let us know.

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w00t! Heck yeah! It works!

So new behavior in 0.14.3+, when you copy an image into your clipboard:

  • ctrl-v, pastes an image from the clipboard, downloading it
  • shift-ctrl-v, does nothing

I can paste images again! Thanks!

Also tested it with the GNOME screenshot tool. Everything works!

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