diff --git a/apps/photocraft/src/services.rs b/apps/photocraft/src/services.rs
--- a/apps/photocraft/src/services.rs
+++ b/apps/photocraft/src/services.rs
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
 /// only, so a screenshot tool or clipboard manager that offers just `image/jpeg`, `image/bmp` or
 /// `image/webp` pasted nothing. Reads the other `image/*` types through the same data-control
 /// protocol arboard uses, and decodes them with our own codecs. `None` off Wayland.
-#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+#[cfg(any())] // X11-only Gentoo build: wl-clipboard-rs is not linked.
 fn wayland_clipboard_image() -> Option<(u32, u32, Vec<u8>)> {
     use std::io::Read;
     use wl_clipboard_rs::paste::{ClipboardType, MimeType, Seat, get_contents, get_mime_types_ordered};
@@ -399,5 +399,11 @@
     })
 }
+// On X11 arboard handles the system clipboard, so Wayland fallback is not used.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn wayland_clipboard_image() -> Option<(u32, u32, Vec<u8>)> {
+    None
+}
+
 /// The first clipboard offer, in the source's order, that `fetch` returns as a decodable image,
 /// upright as RGBA8. Only `image/*` types are fetched, so text offers are never transferred.
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", test))]