From 58b756f04c26edc79ccc1e8ff8b27e1c33da1120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 17:17:10 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: clean up empty file after failed wl-paste clipboard
 extraction

When wl-paste produces empty output, the destination file was left
on disk as a 0-byte orphan. Now explicitly removed before returning
False.
---
 hermes_cli/clipboard.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/hermes_cli/clipboard.py b/hermes_cli/clipboard.py
index 6373cfc8b..bdead70b1 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/clipboard.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/clipboard.py
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ def _wayland_save(dest: Path) -> bool:
             )
 
         if not dest.exists() or dest.stat().st_size == 0:
+            dest.unlink(missing_ok=True)
             return False
 
         # BMP needs conversion to PNG (common in WSLg where only BMP