How to enable "Text Selection" at startup in Okular?

In KDE's PDF reader "Okular", at startup, text selection is set to "Draw a rectangle around the text/graphics to copy". I'd like to have it set as "Text Selection" by default.

How to do this?

Solution 1:

This I read from the official documentation Okular, I hope it's the answer to your question

Tools ! Text Selection Tool (Ctrl+4) The mouse will work as a text selection tool. In that mode clicking left mouse button and dragging will give the option of selecting the text of the document. Then, just click with the right mouse button to copy to the clipboard or speak the current selection.

The Okular Handbook. Albert Astals Cid, Pino Toscano

Solution 2:

KDE/Plasma specific applications allow the user to edit the options available on the toolbar:

Right-click the toolbar or Settings: Configure toolbars - change under Toolbar: Main Toolbar < okular_part >, then filter available actions by searching "Text", and add it to the current actions to the right.

(Avoid having "Selection tools" in the list of current actions, as it can be a bit confusing: that button only shows what selection tool is selected , therefore it is useful when no specific selection tools' buttons are on the toolbar; but if the button of a selection tool is in the toolbar, you will see its name appearing there twice - once on its button, once on the "Selection tools" button.)