diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 425d6a132..c32c0c0c4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "parking_lot",
  "percent-encoding",
  "windows-sys 0.60.2",
+ "wl-clipboard-rs",
  "x11rb",
 ]
 
@@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ version = "0.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6fac387a98bb7c37292057cffc56d62ecb629900026402633ae9160df93a8766"
 dependencies = [
- "nom",
+ "nom 7.1.3",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1369,7 +1370,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "74fef4569247a5f429d9156b9d0a2599914385dd189c539334c625d8099d90ab"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
- "nom",
+ "nom 7.1.3",
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
@@ -1411,6 +1412,12 @@ version = "0.1.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5baebc0774151f905a1a2cc41989300b1e6fbb29aff0ceffa1064fdd3088d582"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fixedbitset"
+version = "0.5.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1d674e81391d1e1ab681a28d99df07927c6d4aa5b027d7da16ba32d1d21ecd99"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "flate2"
 version = "1.1.9"
@@ -2770,6 +2777,15 @@ 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 = "ntapi"
 version = "0.4.3"
@@ -3664,6 +3680,16 @@ 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 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "owned_ttf_parser"
 version = "0.25.1"
@@ -3718,6 +3744,17 @@ version = "2.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9b4f627cb1b25917193a259e49bdad08f671f8d9708acfd5fe0a8c1455d87220"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "petgraph"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8701b58ea97060d5e5b155d383a69952a60943f0e6dfe30b04c287beb0b27455"
+dependencies = [
+ "fixedbitset",
+ "hashbrown 0.15.5",
+ "indexmap 2.14.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "phf"
 version = "0.11.3"
@@ -5501,6 +5538,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[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"
@@ -6559,6 +6607,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasmparser",
 ]
 
+[[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 = "writeable"
 version = "0.6.3"
diff --git a/crates/op-host-desktop/Cargo.toml b/crates/op-host-desktop/Cargo.toml
index 56331948c..8119d8c48 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-desktop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/op-host-desktop/Cargo.toml
@@ -183,10 +183,11 @@ serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 toml_edit = "0.25"
 rfd = "0.14"
-# OS clipboard for the AI chat input's Cmd+C / Cmd+V / Cmd+X.
-# arboard wraps NSPasteboard (macOS), the Win32 clipboard, and
-# X11 / Wayland on Linux — one cross-platform text-clipboard API.
-arboard = "3"
+# OS clipboard for Cmd+C / Cmd+V / Cmd+X, including canvas images.
+# Native Wayland access is opt-in in arboard; without this feature a
+# Wayland session still probes X11/XWayland and misses clipboard offers
+# made directly by apps such as KDE Spectacle.
+arboard = { version = "3", features = ["wayland-data-control"] }
 # Base64-encodes chat image attachments for providers that take
 # inline image content blocks (Claude SDK) or a base64 body field
 # (HTTP-server transport). Same pure-Rust crate op-figma uses.
diff --git a/crates/op-host-desktop/src/clipboard.rs b/crates/op-host-desktop/src/clipboard.rs
index bcee0550b..147cbe96c 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-desktop/src/clipboard.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-desktop/src/clipboard.rs
@@ -93,3 +93,34 @@ pub fn set_text(text: &str) {
         let _ = clipboard.set_text(text.to_owned());
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::borrow::Cow;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn native_clipboard_rgba_is_encoded_as_png() {
+        let image = arboard::ImageData {
+            width: 2,
+            height: 1,
+            bytes: Cow::Owned(vec![255, 0, 0, 255, 0, 255, 0, 128]),
+        };
+
+        let encoded = encode_image(image).expect("valid clipboard RGBA should encode");
+
+        assert_eq!((encoded.width, encoded.height), (2, 1));
+        assert!(encoded.png.starts_with(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn native_clipboard_rgba_rejects_truncated_rows() {
+        let image = arboard::ImageData {
+            width: 2,
+            height: 1,
+            bytes: Cow::Owned(vec![255, 0, 0, 255]),
+        };
+
+        assert!(encode_image(image).is_none());
+    }
+}