With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)

Post by Shorel » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

yndoendo wrote: post #49

macNchz wrote: post #31

The X “primary selection”/middle click paste behavior this takes advantage of is one of my least favorite Linux features and I have had it disabled for years, so I didn’t even know it had been changed/removed in Wayland. Having a single mouse button (that often has other functionality like autoscroll in Firefox) cause text highlighted in another app to paste in the focused app is super unintuitive to me, and caused a…

I cannot stand any Operating System that does not utilize left-click highlight and middle click paste. This is great secondary buffer to the clipboard Ctrl+C && Ctrl+V. I HATE the middle click scrolling feature that Windows uses, it is not user-friendly and not needed in the age of the scroll-wheel. Another reason you have to pay me to use Windows.

Post by devilbunny » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:28 PM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #121

philistine wrote: post #83

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Not OP, but I can say that it is a mode, which is its problem. You enter into the scroll mode and while not difficult per se to exit it can cause confusion. It is also pretty superfluous in the age of the touchpad and the ubiquity of the scroll wheel. Just another example of Microsoft working really hard to make Windows 11 look simpler, but not working on making it meaningfully simpler.

I don't know when middle-click scroll was introduced, but it definitely was before Windows 11, and at least as far back as 7. Also, "no modes" is both a question of personal preference and a sliding scale. Input-has-focus is a mode, too, but getting rid of that would be an obvious mistake.

Post by 0xDEFACED » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

redwall_hp wrote: post #138

macNchz wrote: post #31

The X “primary selection”/middle click paste behavior this takes advantage of is one of my least favorite Linux features and I have had it disabled for years, so I didn’t even know it had been changed/removed in Wayland. Having a single mouse button (that often has other functionality like autoscroll in Firefox) cause text highlighted in another app to paste in the focused app is super unintuitive to me, and caused a…

Yeah, I absolutely hate it. MacOS is the only system with sane handling of copying and pasting, because it doesn't have that obnoxious thing and it doesn't overload the ctrl key. Command+C doesn't interfere with ctrl+C in terminals. Copying should always be deliberate, not something that blasts out your clipboard when you click in the wrong place and select something unintentionally. And middle click is for opening t…

Post by emersion » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:34 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #99

emersion wrote: post #78

> For firefox running in Wayland, `writeXPrimary()` will only succeed when the firefox window (the main window, not necessarily the tab the code runs in) has the focus. Otherwise the selection will be cleared. At first I assumed that this is something specific to the Wayland protocol, but that turned out to be utterly false; it's just some quirk, bug or "feature" specific to either firefox itself or GTK. Most Wayland…

> Additionally, the Wayland protocol carries an event identifier, so that the compositor can tie the clipboard request to a pointer/keyboard/touch event and take a better decision. That's actually not the case. There's a serial number that the client provides when they want to set the selection (that is, cut/copy)[0][1], but nothing when a client requests a paste[2][3]. I always thought this is weird; while yes, it's…

Post by lolinder » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:38 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #155

lolinder wrote: post #143

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> not something that blasts out your clipboard when you click in the wrong place and select something unintentionally This isn't helped by the fact that the mainstream desktop OSes don't have proper clipboard managers bundled by default. Accidentally copying something isn't as big a deal when you have the most recent 200 items you've copied in an easily searchable widget.

Windows has clipboard history