Drag and drop to move/copy/link shortcuts not working

Hyprland version
Hyprland 0.51.0 built from branch  at commit 46174f78b374b6cea669c48880877a8bdcf7802f  (version: bump to 0.51.0).
Date: Wed Sep 10 12:41:05 2025
Tag: v0.51.0, commits: 6418
built against:
 aquamarine 0.9.4
 hyprlang 0.6.3
 hyprutils 0.8.4
 hyprcursor 0.1.13
 hyprgraphics 0.1.5


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Describe your issue / feature…

Drag and drop to move/copy/link shortcuts not working on hyprland. Is there some magic to make them work? I mean when with apps like Thunar/Evolution/Nemo… file managers in general, when on Xorg we keep pressed ctrl/shift/alt we can move/copy/link, but on Wayland nothing appears next to the cursor, and only the move operation gets executed.

Hyprland doesn’t support DnD operations based on modifiers pressed atm. It’s always the (iirc) copy one.

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