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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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[–] 4 points 9 months ago

It was implemented as part of the X11 standard, so the concrete program would've been X.org...

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