diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
index 303c5eb1fa1..080584c17fb 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "parking_lot",
  "percent-encoding",
  "windows-sys 0.60.2",
+ "wl-clipboard-rs",
  "x11rb",
 ]
 
@@ -2406,6 +2407,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tendril",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "downcast-rs"
+version = "1.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "75b325c5dbd37f80359721ad39aca5a29fb04c89279657cffdda8736d0c0b9d2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dpi"
 version = "0.1.2"
@@ -5835,6 +5842,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "minimal-lexical",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nom"
+version = "8.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df9761775871bdef83bee530e60050f7e54b1105350d6884eb0fb4f46c2f9405"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "noq"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -6674,6 +6690,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "os_pipe"
+version = "1.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7d8fae84b431384b68627d0f9b3b1245fcf9f46f6c0e3dc902e9dce64edd1967"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "windows-sys 0.45.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "os_str_bytes"
 version = "6.6.1"
@@ -10157,7 +10183,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d4ea810f0692f9f51b382fff5893887bb4580f5fa246fde546e0b13e7fcee662"
 dependencies = [
  "fnv",
- "nom",
+ "nom 7.1.3",
  "phf 0.11.3",
  "phf_codegen 0.11.3",
 ]
@@ -10849,6 +10875,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tree_magic_mini"
+version = "3.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b8765b90061cba6c22b5831f675da109ae5561588290f9fa2317adab2714d5a6"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+ "nom 8.0.0",
+ "petgraph",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "try-lock"
 version = "0.2.5"
@@ -11403,6 +11440,76 @@ dependencies = [
  "web-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-backend"
+version = "0.3.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "016ccf01d1c58b6f8999612813e17c9b2390f7d70671428869913310f83f54b8"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "downcast-rs",
+ "rustix 1.1.4",
+ "smallvec",
+ "wayland-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-client"
+version = "0.31.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e3c36a0f861ad76d0901f2800b46321410d9f73f2ea88aac0650d86c32688073"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.13.0",
+ "rustix 1.1.4",
+ "wayland-backend",
+ "wayland-scanner",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-protocols"
+version = "0.32.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "23d0c813de3daa2ed6520af85a3bd49b0e722a3078506899aa9686fea58dc4b6"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.13.0",
+ "wayland-backend",
+ "wayland-client",
+ "wayland-scanner",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-protocols-wlr"
+version = "0.3.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "eb04e52f7836d7c7976c78ca0250d61e33873c34156a2a1fc9474828ec268234"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.13.0",
+ "wayland-backend",
+ "wayland-client",
+ "wayland-protocols",
+ "wayland-scanner",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-scanner"
+version = "0.31.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "338e30461b3a2b67d70eb30a6d89f8e0c93a833e07d2ae89085cd070c4a00ac0"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quick-xml 0.41.0",
+ "quote",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wayland-sys"
+version = "0.31.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d8eab23fefc9e41f8e841df4a9c707e8a8c4ed26e944ef69297184de2785e3be"
+dependencies = [
+ "pkg-config",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "web-sys"
 version = "0.3.103"
@@ -12277,6 +12384,24 @@ version = "0.57.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1ebf944e87a7c253233ad6766e082e3cd714b5d03812acc24c318f549614536e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wl-clipboard-rs"
+version = "0.9.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e9651471a32e87d96ef3a127715382b2d11cc7c8bb9822ded8a7cc94072eb0a3"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "os_pipe",
+ "rustix 1.1.4",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
+ "tree_magic_mini",
+ "wayland-backend",
+ "wayland-client",
+ "wayland-protocols",
+ "wayland-protocols-wlr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wmi"
 version = "0.18.4"
diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index 638f0739da6..0ed74173338 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -107,7 +107,11 @@ tauri-plugin-global-shortcut = "2"
 tauri-plugin-notification = "2.3.3"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4", "v5"] }
 png = "0.18"
-arboard = "3"
+# wayland-data-control: without it arboard is X11-only on Linux, so copies made
+# in a Wayland session land in XWayland's clipboard where Wayland-native apps
+# never see them (set_text still returns Ok). The backing wl-clipboard-rs dep is
+# target-gated inside arboard; at runtime X11 sessions still fall back to X11.
+arboard = { version = "3", features = ["wayland-data-control"] }
 image = { version = "0.25", default-features = false, features = ["jpeg", "png", "webp", "gif"] }
 zip = "8"
 flate2 = "1"