Is there any hack to force mouse middle click to paste latest item from Klipper (clipboard selection) and not the latest selected text (primary selection) ?
I lose the separateness , but I use the clipboard widget setting “Selection and Clipboard: Keep the selection and clipboard the same”.
I don’t want to use copy while selecting text, because I’m constantly selecting random texts on different opened apps, what I want is to use mouse middle click to paste the latest copied item (copied via ctrl+c or copy menu) from Klipper. Which means I want to force middle click to paste the copied item from clipboard selection instead of primary selection.
With selection and clipboard synchronized I can, and often do, copy via ctrl-c or copy on a menu, then paste with middle-click. It seems you want to keep them separate, because you select “random texts” with the mouse. I wonder what you are doing with those random selections if you aren’t copying them.
I suspect you need generalized input remapping, like Input Remapper, which I’ve never used.
It’s necessary to select parts of typed text in any word processing, text/MD editor, browser, svg editor… to apply basic (or complex) character or paragraph formatting and also set custom fonts and colors…
I don’t think what you want is possible, as the mouse text selection/middle click paste is a X11 thing and Klipper might not have a way to control that (in fact that functionality is/was missing from Wayland, which is a show stopper for many of us).
A lower level tool, or a X11 config might work but I’m not aware of anything of the sort.
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