Middle-click paste setting: where is it?

[meven]

@krake

• the option requires Wayland as it is a kwin_wayland feature on top of what applications support

That’s it, I implemented this setting, but some Apps might not comply with it notably Firefox.

In X11, you need specific hacks that are independent of the window manager, outside of KDE Plasma X11 scope. This middle-click pasting has been a X thing since forever. And something I absolutely required it personally for Wayland to be usable.

@krake

if deactivated the applications could still do the paste themselves as the only way to avoid that would be to not send them middle click events at all

Indeed, as Firefox does its own thing.

@krake

they and/or their toolkits might very well have similar settings themselves

They don’t, they implement the Wayland protocol as intended, without working around it like Firefox.

This has already been discussed a couple of times:

How to disable Middle-click paste

The setting works in chromium in my testing. You need to log-out for the setting to be applied, as systemsettings tells you. Middle-click text pasting is very old and standard since forever. I did implement this setting WaylandServer: Add a setting to disable PrimarySelection (!2487) · Merge requests · Plasma / KWin · GitLab. I didn’t know this was possible to disable this in firefox as it ignores compositor (https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/11by5gk/how_do_i_disable_the_highlight_mi…