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myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

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[SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

I am running Arch with Gnome Shell as my DE. Wayland is the compositor.

Firefox is my default browser, and I have installed the Firefox extension "Clippings." I use that to be able to hit a keypress combination to append a signature in anything that accepts text in Firefox. I mostly use it for entering time entries in my compay's PSA/RMM platform.

I notice that in Arch, I cannot use the keypress as I would expect. For example, the normal command would be to press Alt+Shift+Y. This brings up a dialog, and from there, I press single key assigned to the "clip" i wish to insert, and it adds it to the focused text field. It works fine in Windows, and it worked fine when I was running Antergos on the same laptop. There are no reported compatibility issues with Firefox and the extension, and I don't assume that Gnome is the problem, since I used Gnome in Antergos. My assumption is that something in Wayland may be causing the anomaly.

On to my question, I suppose I just need some help thinking this through and isolating a possible root cause so i can seek help in the right place.

any of you willing to install the extension and test with Gnome/Wayland to see if you can duplicate the problem? It still works from the right click menu in the text field, but the keyboard shortcut is a huge time saver, and I'd prefer to be able to restore the function I historically use.

If any further information is needed to help you help me, just let me know what to get for you.

Here's the extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … clippings/

Last edited by myk.robinson (2019-04-07 00:23:50)

Swiggles

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Registered: 2014-08-02

Posts: 266

Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

I tested it and it is working for me with Gnome. I checked with X and Wayland, but no difference. So unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem.

myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

I tested it and it is working for me with Gnome. I checked with X and Wayland, but no difference. So unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem.

Cool, thanks for testing. I may just try purging the extension and reading. Maybe something in the config is corrupted.

Swiggles

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Registered: 2014-08-02

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Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

Just to make sure. Did you check the options? You can uncheck the shortcut and select a key. I am sure you are aware, but sometimes we forget the first step. :-)
Disabling and enabling options and/or the addon itself could help. Do you have a conflicting shortcut in Gnome?

myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

Just to make sure. Did you check the options? You can uncheck the shortcut and select a key. I am sure you are aware, but sometimes we forget the first step. :-)
Disabling and enabling options and/or the addon itself could help. Do you have a conflicting shortcut in Gnome?

Nah, it's not conflicting with any other presses. the dialog launches, it just doesn't paste in the text Tonight I purged all the config folders to fully reset Firefox and try again, but same results. I have no idea what's causing it. I am using the same handful of extensions I always has, it just is not working in my arch install for whatever reason.

myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

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Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

https://i.imgur.com/q0J1SBl.png

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

Do you run wayland firefox or xwayland firefox?

myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

Do you run wayland firefox or xwayland firefox?

I'm not sure if this is the "right" answer. The Firefox I have installed, according to pacman and pamac, is just called "Firefox (firefox) "

https://i.imgur.com/JXw8Ai1.png

myk.robinson

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] -Firefox, Clippings extension, Gnome, Wayland

Well, i don't have a clue what changed but after recent updates, it's all working just fine. Wonder if some of updates regarding Wayland and Firefox have "corrected" the issue.

marking this as solved