Option to set -noclipboardprimary

[Yogu]

Enabling clipboard sharing seems to not only share the CLIPBOARD clipboard, but also the PRIMARY clipboard. So if you something, it instantly overrides the (shared) clipboard. VcXsrv offers the option -noclipboardprimary to disable this and only share the CLIPBOARD. It would be goot do to be able to configure this without a custom profile. I would even argue that it is the better default, especially if you're a Windows user and have never heard of the copy-on-select feature.

[Pololot64]

Hmm. I'll look into it. Maybe I'll make it another builtin profile. We'll see what I can do while maintaining simplicity in the backend.

[archie-lab]

Also have this issue using GWSL on my Win11. I use IDE installed on WSL, and it is very annoying when I select and copy something in Win, then in my IDE copy what I want to replace and because of this "primary selection" it overrides clipboard with what I first selected in IDE. Need to delete what I want to replace without the selection and paste copied stuff from Win...

[Pololot64]

On my todo :)

[mitsos1os]

Exactly the same reason I came here to post an issue about! Thanks for the work @Pololot64 Also @Yogu can you post how did you manage to run it even with the flag? I tried creating a new custom profile, however the GWSL Service crashes continuously when I use it. Here is my settings.json

{
 "conf_ver": 6,
 "gwsl_ver": "1.4.0",
 "general": {
  "pulseaudio": true,
  "clipboard": true,
  "start_menu_mode": false,
  "shell_gui": "cmd",
  "acrylic_enabled": true
 },
 "graphics": {
  "window_mode": "NoCopyOnSelect",
  "hidpi": false
 },
 "putty": {
  "ip": null,
  "ssh_key": null
 },
 "distro_blacklist": [
  "docker"
 ],
 "app_blacklist": [
  "exampleblock"
 ],
 "xserver_profiles": {
  "Plain VcXsrv": [],
  "NoCopyOnSelect": [
   "-noclipboardprimary"
  ]
 }
}

[mitsos1os]

Ok, so solution is also mentioned in previous issues: #127 #99 #16 😄 So custom profile should be with flags: -wgl -compositewm -multiwindow -clipboard -noprimary -dpi -auto Also posting proper configuration:

{
 "conf_ver": 6,
 "gwsl_ver": "1.4.0",
 "general": {
  "pulseaudio": true,
  "clipboard": true,
  "start_menu_mode": false,
  "shell_gui": "cmd",
  "acrylic_enabled": true
 },
 "graphics": {
  "window_mode": "NoCopyOnSelect",
  "hidpi": false
 },
 "putty": {
  "ip": null,
  "ssh_key": null
 },
 "distro_blacklist": [
  "docker"
 ],
 "app_blacklist": [
  "exampleblock"
 ],
 "xserver_profiles": {
  "Plain VcXsrv": [],
  "NoCopyOnSelect": [
   "-wgl",
   "-compositewm",
   "-multiwindow",
   "-clipboard",
   "-noprimary",
   "-notrayicon",
   "-dpi",
   "-auto"
  ]
 }
}

UPDATE Updated the flags and configuration to directly match default MultiWindow without the primary clibboard

[Pololot64]

Ok, I will do this by adding an unexposed configuration entry called block_primary. That will not get in the way of existing functionality.

[voycey]

I am still struggling with this, I am using an IDE directly in WSL via GSWL and it is now copying everything I am trying to paste on select. I tried @mitsos1os config above and its not changing any behaviour unfortunately.

[Pololot64]

Hello. With gwsl 1.4.5, you have the ability to f Disable primary using the configuration file. It should work. Let me know if something doesn't work

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I am still struggling with this, I am using an IDE directly in WSL via GSWL and it is now copying everything I am trying to paste on select. I tried @mitsos1oshttps://github.com/mitsos1os config above and its not changing any behaviour unfortunately.

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[voycey]

I am on 1.4.5 - but in IntelliJ (Pycharm for example) it still overrides the clipboard when I select something in PyCharm. I added the configuration from https://github.com/Opticos/GWSL-Source/issues/142#issuecomment-1123760551:

{
 "conf_ver": 7,
 "gwsl_ver": "1.4.5",
 "general": {
  "pulseaudio": true,
  "hide_donation_reminder": false,
  "force_disable_primary": false,
  "clipboard": true,
  "start_menu_mode": false,
  "shell_gui": "cmd",
  "acrylic_enabled": true
 },
 "graphics": {
  "window_mode": "multi",
  "hidpi": false
 },
 "putty": {
  "ip": null,
  "ssh_key": null
 },
 "distro_blacklist": [
  "docker"
 ],
 "app_blacklist": [
  "exampleblock"
 ],
 "xserver_profiles": {
  "Plain VcXsrv": [],
  "NoCopyOnSelect": [
   "-wgl",
   "-compositewm",
   "-multiwindow",
   "-clipboard",
   "-noprimary",
   "-notrayicon",
   "-dpi",
   "-auto"
  ]
 }
}

[Pololot64]

Make "force_disable_primary" true. That may work. Also use it with the default profile.

[R-Bower]

@voycey Did you enable the profile in the right click context menu?

I also enabled force_disable_primary in the general section of the settings. This is working for me.

[voycey]

Ive actually moved to Jetbrains Gateway now so this is no longer relevant but good to know - ill try this one too!