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How to stop Wayland from broadcasting my selected text? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 weeks ago by BlueKey@fedia.io 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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

I thought text selection was handled via keyboard. Also been a hot minute since I first learned about this, and not using that buffer has not exactly been a common discussion point, since being able to reuse text is typically a desirable trait!