Wayland: freezes up when loading with empty clipboard

[edbefee3-3888-462a-9411-741b7e9eb54e]

When loading an app that uses this (such as micro) on Wayland, if wl-copy and wl-paste are found in the PATH environment variable, and the clipboard is empty, the app will fail to load until something is copied.
once the app is loaded, it will freeze up whenever a clipboard action is done until the clipboard is full.

[zyedidia]

Clipper attempts to read from the clipboard at startup to verify that the clipboard is working (or otherwise it will fall back to other methods). Does reading from the wayland clipboard when it is empty cause it to hang? Clipper uses wl-paste --no-newline to read from the clipboard (does running that at the CLI hang if there is nothing in the clipboard?).

[edbefee3-3888-462a-9411-741b7e9eb54e]

running that with an empty clipboard does hang, so it's probably a wl-clipboard issue