Web clipper broken in 1.11.4 - only sends page title, window won't focus

bermudi · January 17, 2026, 12:59am

hey, since updating to 1.11.4 my web clipper stopped working properly

Steps to reproduce

have obsidian open in the background
use the web clipper extension on any page
instead of obsidian coming to foreground with the full clipped content, it just blinks in the taskbar and only the page title gets saved

works fine if obsidian is closed (content gets queued properly), only breaks when it’s already running

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y - tested in sandbox vault, same issue. also can’t test with appimage because it doesn’t register the obsidian:// protocol handler on my system

Expected result

obsidian comes to foreground, full page content is clipped

Actual result

window blinks for attention but doesn’t focus, only page title ends up in the note - no content

Environment

obsidian 1.11.4
arch linux
firefox + official obsidian web clipper

Additional information

downgrading to the previous version fixes it completely
started happening exactly when 1.11.4 dropped 3 days ago
clipper extension hasn’t been updated in months so it’s not on that end

WhiteNoise · January 17, 2026, 1:15am

You can make this work with .desktop file.

I don’t know which package you use. For linux we only support the packages we make under KDE or GNOME. Sorry.

The recent package (that we make) uses electron 39 which now defaults to wayland native as opposed to xwayland. I don’t know if that’s the source of change you are seeing.

xplatinum · January 17, 2026, 7:41pm

I have a similar issue with focus and no content being inserted.

Arch Linux - KDE Plasma 6.5.5
Obsidian 1.11.4
Firefox 147.0.1 w/ obsidian web clipper from the firefox addons page

Clipping to an existing note no longer works. The Obsidian application is brought to the foreground but nothing is inserted. Inserting to a new note works.

I had to change this setting to make the focus work : from low to none. It fixed the app being brought to the foreground but didn’t help with the content issue.