# Add GSettings Support for Primary Paste
Implements support for `org.gnome.desktop.interface
gtk-enable-primary-paste` to allow users to disable middle-click paste.
Also refactors GTK Settings access into a reusable generic module.
## Changes
- **NEW**: `src/apprt/gtk/gsettings.zig` - Generic GTK Settings reader
supporting `bool` and `c_int` types, portal-aware for Flatpak/Snap
- **MODIFIED**: `src/apprt/gtk/class/surface.zig` - Reads primary paste
setting and refactors gtk-xft-dpi to use new module
## Behavior
- Setting `false` → Middle-click paste blocked
- Setting `true` or unavailable → Middle-click paste works (default)
- Uses GTK Settings API which automatically uses XDG Desktop Portal in
sandboxed environments
Note: No unit tests added as this is a thin wrapper around GTK Settings
API that's already tested indirectly through surface.zig. Happy to add
tests if desired, though they would require an active display
environment and skip on most CI systems.
The reporting of color scheme was handled asynchronously by queuing a
handler in the surface. This could lead to race conditions where the DSR
is reported after subsequent VT sequences.
Fixes#5922
Add new `selection-word-chars` config option to customize which characters
mark word boundaries during text selection operations (double-click, word
selection, etc.). Similar to zsh's WORDCHARS environment variable, but
specifies boundary characters rather than word characters.
Default boundaries: ` \t'"│`|:;,()[]{}<>$`
Users can now customize word selection behavior, such as treating
semicolons as part of words or excluding periods from boundaries:
selection-word-chars = " \t'\"│`|:,()[]{}<>$"
Changes:
- Add selection-word-chars config field with comprehensive documentation
- Modify selectWord() and selectWordBetween() to accept boundary_chars parameter
- Parse UTF-8 boundary string to u32 codepoints at runtime
- Update all call sites in Surface.zig and embedded.zig
- Update all test cases to pass boundary characters
Gtk implementation of #9945. Fixes#9948.
This adds session search to the command palette on Gtk, allowing you to jump to any surface by title or working directory. The main difference to the Mac OS implementation is that tabs do not have colors by which to search. I also have not implemented the flashing behavior when a split is focused.
The same, or as close as I could make it, behavior that was introduced for command sorting is also implemented for Gtk. Granted, as I haven't tested this new feature on Mac OS, my understanding of the behavior of it is based on the code and the screencast from the PR.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d50d93a8-fe32-4d39-ba41-1f766010a293
One thing I noticed during development, which I left unsolved as I also didn't see it solved in the Mac OS implementation (though I haven't tested it), is that if you are zoomed into a split, then focusing a different split doesn't do anything. There's a configuration option that I forgot the name of, related to zoom behavior during navigation, that I would expect to be respected, but I wasn't able to get it to work, so I left it for a later iteration.
The majority of the code was generated with Claude Sonnet 4.5. Although I have reviewed and iterated on the code thoroughly, I am not experienced with Zig and I would not be surprised if there are issues that I did not notice, and would appreciate them being pointed out (and ideally explained if it's not obvious to a non-Zig developer).
Using a pointer for this is a bit icky. Once Ghostty adds unique ids to
surfaces, we can sort by that id instead. This can potentially also be
used to navigate to the surface instead of having the command palette
reference the surfaces directly.
The reporting of color scheme was handled asynchronously by queuing a
handler in the surface. This could lead to race conditions where the
DSR is reported after subsequent VT sequences.
Fixes#5922
Adds the `selection_for_search` action, with Cmd+E keybind by default.
This action inputs the currently selected text into the search
field without changing focus, matching standard macOS behavior.
Gtk implementation of #9945. Fixes#9948.
This adds session search to the command palette on Gtk, allowing you to
jump to any surface by title or working directory. The main difference
to the Mac OS implementation is that tabs do not have colors by which to
search.
Make clipboardRequest return bool to indicate whether the action could
be performed. For paste requests, synchronously check if the clipboard
contains text formats before starting the async read.
This allows 'performable:paste_from_clipboard' keybinds to pass through
when the clipboard contains non-text content (e.g., images), enabling
terminal applications to handle their own clipboard reading.
Changes:
- Surface.startClipboardRequest now returns bool
- paste_from_clipboard/paste_from_selection actions return the result
- GTK apprt checks clipboard formats synchronously before async read
- Embedded apprt always returns true (can't check synchronously)
- All other call sites discard the return value with _
When paste_from_clipboard is triggered but the clipboard contains no
text (e.g., an image), send the raw Ctrl+V keypress to the terminal
instead of silently returning. This allows applications to handle
their own clipboard reading (e.g., via wl-paste for images on Wayland).
This is a regression introduced when we added macOS support for custom
entries. I mistakingly thought that only custom entries were in the
config, but we do initialize it with all!
