diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a8edd3b..1e5f309 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 - add support for bemenu selector, a multi backend dmenu clone
 - add a man page
 
+**Notable Bug fixes**
+
+- some input were skipped because not recognized as text
+
 # 1.2.0
 
 **New features**
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index ca6774d..9d075fe 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ func serveTxt(s string) {
 		log.Printf("couldn't find wl-copy: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
-	cmd := exec.Cmd{Path: bin, Stdin: strings.NewReader(s)}
+	// we mandate the mime type because we know we can only serve text; not doing this leads to weird bugs like #35
+	cmd := exec.Cmd{Path: bin, Args: []string{bin, "-t", "TEXT"}, Stdin: strings.NewReader(s)}
 	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("error running wl-copy: %s\n", err)
 	}