Add support for copying and pasting to the X11/Wayland PRIMARY clipboard
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
In most applications using X11/Wayland, it is possible to utilize the primary clipboard by selecting text and pasting this selection using the middle mouse button, but not in egui. Because I want to make an application using egui that I will use myself (a level editor), this would add functionality that I expect from every application and would aid me in the usage of this tool.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
This crate uses `arboard`, which has primary clipboard support. It would not be hard to copy selected text into the PRIMARY clipboard, and paste it using a middle mouse button event.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating egui's clipboard integration through the arboard crate and its middle-mouse pointer-event handling for native X11/Wayland applications. Verify how selected text is copied to the PRIMARY clipboard and how a middle-button paste would be triggered; done means both operations work as requested without breaking existing clipboard behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100