[Linux Neovim Clipboard struggle]

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Sep 9, 2025
finished
likely

Since I started using Neovim like 2 years ago I never got yanking to the system clip board to work. Googling around there are a lot of weird hacks people seem to be using, hope this finds someone who needs it.

I happened across this in the remains of my kickstart.nvim README file:

External Requirements:
  ...
- Clipboard tool (xclip/xsel/win32yank or other depending on platform)
  ...

Since I'm on Wayland this means using wl-clipboard, which I just added to my system packages:

environment.systemPackages = [
  pkgs.wl-clipboard
];

Once I installed that this line telling Neovim to use the system clipboard started working:

vim.opt.clipboard = 'unnamedplus'

That's what I get for not RTFM.

Good for a yank, eh?

[Linux Neovim Clipboard struggle]

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