diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 416e049bd..453d1e570 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Life is tight as of the moment. Any help will do. 💓
 - Hyprland: Drop of hyprlang support
 - GTK: Have a separate 'DCONF_PROFILE' for GTK apps! For QT, twas always handled by qt6ct and should not
     mangle with QT. But KDE apps uses ~/.config/kdeglobals which might break KDE apps for multi DE. (No fix for now)
+- Clipboard: `ydotool` is preferred over `wtype` for auto-pasting selected entry from clipboard
 
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/Configs/.local/lib/hyde/globalcontrol.sh b/Configs/.local/lib/hyde/globalcontrol.sh
index a6143d6fe..8896fe657 100755
--- a/Configs/.local/lib/hyde/globalcontrol.sh
+++ b/Configs/.local/lib/hyde/globalcontrol.sh
@@ -373,8 +373,17 @@ get_rofi_pos() {
 
 }
 paste_string() {
-    if ! command -v wtype >/dev/null; then exit 0; fi
+    local paste_cmd=""
+    if command -v ydotool >/dev/null; then
+        paste_cmd="ydotool key 29:1 && sleep 0.01 && ydotool key 47:1 47:0 && sleep 0.01 && ydotool key 29:0"
+    elif command -v wtype >/dev/null; then
+        paste_cmd="wtype -M ctrl V -m ctrl"
+    else
+        exit 0
+    fi
+
     if [ -t 1 ]; then return 0; fi
+
     ignore_paste_file="$HYDE_STATE_HOME/ignore.paste"
     if [[ ! -e $ignore_paste_file ]]; then
         cat <<EOF >"$ignore_paste_file"
@@ -386,11 +395,13 @@ Alacritty
 xterm-256color
 EOF
     fi
+
     ignore_class=$(echo "$@" | awk -F'--ignore=' '{print $2}')
     [ -n "$ignore_class" ] && echo "$ignore_class" >>"$ignore_paste_file" && print_log -y "[ignore]" "'$ignore_class'" && exit 0
+
     class=$(hyprctl -j activewindow | jq -r '.initialClass')
     if ! grep -q "$class" "$ignore_paste_file"; then
-        hyprctl -q dispatch exec 'wtype -M ctrl V -m ctrl'
+        hyprctl -q dispatch exec "$paste_cmd"
     fi
 }
 is_hovered() {
diff --git a/Scripts/dots/deps.toml b/Scripts/dots/deps.toml
index b5f76d5fa..dc0eba148 100644
--- a/Scripts/dots/deps.toml
+++ b/Scripts/dots/deps.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ pacman = [
   "satty", # Modern Screenshot Annotation
   "cliphist", # clipboard manager
   "wl-clip-persist", # Keep Wayland clipboard even after programs close (avoids crashes)
+  "ydotool", # preferred tool for auto-pasting from clipboard
+  # "wtype", # alternative tool for auto-pasting from clipboard
+
   # Dependencies
   "hyprpolkitagent", # authentication agent
   "xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland", # xdg desktop portal for hyprland
diff --git a/Scripts/pkg_extra.lst b/Scripts/pkg_extra.lst
index ddffb8daa..ba440ea3c 100644
--- a/Scripts/pkg_extra.lst
+++ b/Scripts/pkg_extra.lst
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ python-requests|wttrbar                                # script dependency
 ddcui                                                  # GUI to control brightness for external monitors
 # hyprgui-bin                                          # GUI for hyprland configuration // might mess your userprefs but convenient // Just disappeared
 # power-profiles-daemon                                # for managing power profiles from waybar
+# ydotool                                              # preferred tool for auto-pasting from clipboard
+# wtype                                                # alternative tool for auto-pasting from clipboard
 
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