Description of issue: When dragging and dropping from any file manager, the file (oftentimes, but not always) doesn’t get shared, and the log says it “dropped file” along with something from a random application.
Steps to reproduce:
Launch renoise.
Drag and drop file.
Expected results:
Drag and drop should place the file into the instrument area.
Extras:
I use hyprland on arch linux. I would also like to note that it seems to be getting worse as it goes on, claiming that it’s dropping more files.
”Renoise LOG> Application: Dropped file (1 from 3): ‘ﾉPNG’
Renoise LOG> Application: Dropped file (2 from 3): ‘’
Renoise LOG> Application: Skipped dropped file (3 from 3). No valid filename”
Screenshot showing what happens when unsuccessful and also when successful:
It still seems to be random, it might be breaking more consistently once I open the manual file picker (?). No matter what (including after restart), it always has something else that it’s trying to save alongside the file. Another thing of note is that the link that it kept seeing as being dropped was the last thing I pasted into an xwayland application (discord), and the renoise logs also changed once I pasted a PNG into discord as well.
Similar thing here on Kubuntu 25.04 (KDE, Wayland).
Renoise LOG> Application: Enter MainLoop... Renoise LOG> Application: Dropped file (1 from 2): '/home/gonk/__uzik/____SAMPLES/__untilde/breaks/202508/amen sick (Manual Sliced).wav' Renoise LOG> Application: Skipped dropped file (2 from 2). No valid filename
I always get a duplicated log line when dragging a sample.
It works most of the time, though, but sometimes the sample is not loaded (I see the cursor). From what I looked up so far, the cursor thing when dragging and dropping seems to be an annoyance on the interaction between Wayland and XWayland applications, but I might be wrong. I couldn’t find a solution for it so far. I think this annoys me more than the duplicated logs, to be honest… (even though having my clipboard pasted on Renoise logs is also… weird)
This isn’t a real solution, but I’ve noticed it tends to actually send the file if I copy it first. Could just be me getting lucky a bunch of times, though.
I cannot replicate the issue here, so I don’t know where to start debugging. Any chance to make this replicable to see if this is something we can fix? Tried this on Arch Linux with Plasma here,
The socond log entry:
Renoise LOG> Application: Skipped dropped file (2 from 2). No valid filename
is harmless and not the problem, but I’ll get rid of it.
cursor). From what I looked up so far, the cursor thing when dragging and dropping seems to be an annoyance on the interaction between Wayland and XWayland applications, but I might be wrong. I couldn’t find a solution for it so far. I think this annoys me more than the duplicated logs, to be honest… (even though having my clipboard pasted on Renoise logs is also… weird)