Preventing auto-copy about copyq HOT 4 CLOSED

Does disabling "selection to clipboard" (in the first tab in Preferences) help?

This won't copy selection to clipboard, i.e. you'll be able to use middle-click to paste text from selection but clipboard (ctrl-v, shift-insert) with contain only stuff copied with ctrl-c (well, depending on application).

Anyway, sometimes ignoring selection can be really useful functionality -- especially when GTK apps modify selection without user's intervention!

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Excellent @hluk - ta - that helps :)

I'm pretty impressed with the app - it's thoughtfully designed, appears to be coded well, reliable - with a decent UI,
I like how you've both a UI and a cli for playing with the clipboard buffer.

Nice work

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I'm glad you like it. My profession is programmer and I often search for bits and pieces of code in the app. I can say I'm pretty addicted to it right now :).

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Is there any way to prevent the auto-copy by pressing a key? I usually need to copy something to the clipboard by selecting it and then double click on something else to paste the copied item on top of it, i.e. deleting the newly selected item. But for that to work I would need to disable the auto-copy by selection temporarily. Auto Copy is a Chrome extension that does that. You can set it to temporarily ignore the auto-copy by pressing ctrl or something else. If it's currently not possible, would be a nice feature to have!

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