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How to stop Wayland from broadcasting my selected text? (fedia.io)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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While fixing a problem with a Wayland app I noticed that the programm got a notification from a Wayland fd whenever I selected some text in any other window (not belonging to the app) and was able to read the contents of the selection.

As I'm not a fan of sharing data without explicit actions (so Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V), is there a way to disable this behaviour of Wayland?

OS info: Fedora 43 KDE

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago

I believe, that needs to be turned off in KDE.

I'm not sure, if this actually turns of the copying or if it just turns off the pasting, but you could try turning off this setting:

System Settings → Workspace → General Behavior → Middle-click → Pastes selected text

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