Known Issues¶

This document lists known commonly occurring issues and possible solutions.

On Windows, tray icon is hidden/repositioned after restart¶

With current official builds of CopyQ, the tray icon position and hide/show status are not restored after the application is restarted or after logging in.

Workaround is to use CopyQ binaries build with older Qt framework version (Qt 5.9); these are provided in latest comments in the issue link below.

On macOS, CopyQ won’t paste after installation/update¶

CopyQ is not signed app, you need to grant Accessibility again when it’s installed or updated.

To fix this, try following steps:

Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility (or just search for “Allow apps to use Accessibility”).
Click the unlock button.
Select CopyQ from the list and remove it (with the “-” button).

On Linux, global shortcuts and pasting doesn’t work¶

This can be caused by running Wayland instead of the old X11.

Wayland doesn’t support:

global shortcuts
clipboard access from window that is not active
mouse selection copy/pasting
pasting from CopyQ (i.e. passing shortcuts to application)

Workaround for most problems is to set QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable and use Xwayland (e.g. xorg-x11-server-Xwayland Fedora package).

E.g. launch CopyQ with:

env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb copyq

If CopyQ autostarts, you can change Exec=... line in ~/.config/autostart/copyq.desktop:

Exec=env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb copyq

Note

Mouse selection will still work only if the source application itself supports it.