Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com>: > As far as I know it's not possible for an application to directly yank > highlighted text from another application. That's an age-old pattern in X11. I don't know if Wayland supports it. Application 1 holds a selection (usually highlighted) and Application 2 wants to copy the selection. No clipboard is needed. Application 2 simply asks for the selection. The request is relayed to Application 1, which generates the response: <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection#Selections> Marko