diff --git a/client/clipboards/Wayland/src/wayland.c b/client/clipboards/Wayland/src/wayland.c
index 52a713af..3dded896 100644
--- a/client/clipboards/Wayland/src/wayland.c
+++ b/client/clipboards/Wayland/src/wayland.c
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ static bool wayland_cb_init(
   this->dataFn    = dataFn;
   this->display   = wminfo->info.wl.display;
   this->registry  = wl_display_get_registry(this->display);
+  this->stashed_type = LG_CLIPBOARD_DATA_NONE;
 
   // Wait for the initial set of globals to appear.
   wl_registry_add_listener(this->registry, &registry_listener, NULL);
@@ -451,7 +452,8 @@ static void data_source_handle_send(void * data, struct wl_data_source * source,
       ssize_t written = write(fd, transfer->data + pos, transfer->size - pos);
       if (written < 0)
       {
-        DEBUG_ERROR("Failed to write clipboard data: %s", strerror(errno));
+        if (errno != EPIPE)
+          DEBUG_ERROR("Failed to write clipboard data: %s", strerror(errno));
         goto error;
       }
 
diff --git a/client/src/main.c b/client/src/main.c
index b85ce4dc..a93f6fc5 100644
--- a/client/src/main.c
+++ b/client/src/main.c
@@ -1861,6 +1861,12 @@ static int lg_run()
   signal(SIGINT , int_handler);
   signal(SIGTERM, int_handler);
 
+  // Request to receive EPIPE instead of SIGPIPE when one end of a pipe
+  // disconnects while a write is pending. This is useful to the Wayland
+  // clipboard backend, where an arbitrary application is on the other end of
+  // that pipe.
+  signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+
   // try map the shared memory
   if (!ivshmemOpen(&g_state.shm))
   {