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by PasteBar_App 685 days ago
Unfortunately, I could not find a way to recreate some of my core functionality like direct paste from task menu or the app to other apps or shell. It required root access in many Linux distributions like Ubuntu, so I could not find a way to overcome this limitation. Maybe somebody can help and create a PR in the future to point me in the right direction, but yeah, good question. Thank you.
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I wonder if you were testing on Wayland? Did it work on X11?
I think it was working on X11 but not on Wayland. I could not remember now, it was some time ago and I am not an expert on Linux.

If I remember correctly, this lib required root access to emulate key presses: https://github.com/PasteBar/PasteBarApp/tree/main/src-tauri/...