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jal

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 37

Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

Hi,

I'm on i3. I can highlight text from a terminal and middle click to paste.

If I highlight text in a browser (vivaldi & FF tested), paste does not work.

A minor issue, but I would be very grateful if someone could help me resolve it.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,657

Re: Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

FF definitely has a distinct setting to change its behaviour https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefo … k_behavior

Not sure about vivaldi and whether that uses some generic gtk3 knob, FWIW works on chromium as expected here.

jal

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 37

Re: Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

Hi V1del,

Thanks for the response, trying to move away from chromium https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/14/ … sion_plan/

I can paste to the browser, but still not from with middle click (both the settings in your link now at 'true').

Thanks anyway!

jal

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 37

Re: Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

Well, it works fine on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ungoogled-chromium/

Shame there doesn't seem to be a way on ff.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,017

Re: Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

killall firefox # get rid of all existing processes
GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 firefox

=> works?

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jal

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 37

Re: Highlight, middle button paste not working with browser as input

=> works?

Afraid not. Address bar text yes, but main page text isn't copied when highlighted.