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xwayland: Allow pushing to the clipboard without focus

David Edmundson requested to merge work/cherry-pick-b2a48d09 into Plasma/6.0

X11 did not have a requirement that apps needed keyboard focus to update a clipboard. Apps could copy things on click. With context menus and grabs there can be no active window at this point.

Kwin tried to retrofit a requirement, which doesn't work in all cases.

Whilst there are security implications of reading a clipboard there are no security issues about pushing a new clipboard. Gnome also allows X11 apps to push to the clipboard at any point.

(cherry picked from commit b2a48d09)

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