[c6401]

So one of the ways how it can be done is: In linux (at least in gnome) it's possible to bind any app or script to a custom global hotkey, plus xclip has access to the currently selected text and zenity can be used to display the result. So it's possible to do it just using bash script bound to a global hotkey.

[arendtio]

Thanks, xclip was the tool I was looking for. Sadly I switched to Plasma 6 two days ago and Wayland doesn't seem to have a similar tool (wl-paste just reads from the clipboard and not from the selected text).

After so many years, Wayland is still such a mess...

[c6401]

You might want to try to send ctrl+c (using something like xdotool or ydotool) to the app to copy the current selection to the clipboard and then to extract clipboard contents to use it in a script.