How to disable "Select All" In Clipboard manager when pasting?

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Hi.

BTT has this habit of selecting all text in my input field whenever I select an item from BTT Clipboard Manager. How to disable this? Don't see any option for it in Settings.

Thank you.

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BTT doesn't have a function to select all text in a textfield before pasting - hower specific textfields (especially in browsers) might be configured to do this automatically.

Where are you encountering this?

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Everywhere.

Here is a video example showing this problem. Watch Screen Recording 2025-12-11 at 23.55.24 | Streamable

These are the exact steps I took: place my cursor where I wish to paste, open BTT Clipboard Manager, hit enter on the item I want, and that’s it. BTT does a SELECT ALL on my input field.

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that must be caused by something you have configured, did you maybe remap cmd+v to cmd+a or are you using some custom keyboard layout?

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I’ve set Option + Space to open BTT Clipboard Manager.

Definitely haven’t remapped CmdV or CmdA anywhere, in BTT or elsewhere. Those are very basic system shortcuts so I definitely wouldn’t touch them. No custom keyboard layout as well.

Earlier I used to use CopyClip clipboard Manager & that never had this problem. Sadly I can’t figure out why BTT Clipboard Manager is doing this.

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This is happening even when I click using my mouse on the BTT clipboard manager item.

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unfortunately I have not encountered something like this before, thus most likely it is some system or BTT configuration. It could also be an external app interfering.

There is a terminal command that let's you override the shortcut BTT uses for pasting, did you maybe import some preset that could have changed this?

Possibly try to quit BTT and run

defaults delete com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool BTTKeyCodeOverrideV

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Thanks a lot for your prompt support, really appreciate it.

Regarding preset, no I haven’t imported any.

I ran the command you gave inside Terminal, but get the following error:

john@Mac ~ % defaults delete com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool BTTKeyCodeOverrideV
2025-12-12 09:19:49.245 defaults[29348:31905059]
Domain (com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool) not found.
Defaults have not been changed.

I ran the command in /users/John/ directory.

Also I noticed that restarting BTT fixes this “select all” bug, but for a short period of time. Last night before sleeping I restarted it & it worked fine, now this morning again the bug has returned. I again restarted BTT & bug has gone.

Also, btw kudos on the fabulous forum website. It is super fast & really cool to see live “other guy is replying” & automatic reply refreshes on my post.

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are you using the setapp version? in that case the command would be

defaults delete com.hegenberg.bettertouchtool-setapp BTTKeyCodeOverrideV

Otherwise the message means the shortcut has not been modified and BTT defaults to cmd+v

You could try to check BTT's recently used section to see whether anything weird shows up when pasting.

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Thanks I’ll try out your suggestions