Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494266
-=| Francesco Poli, 02.09.2018 19:38:38 +0200 |=- > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 11:29:06 +0000 Damyan Ivanov wrote: > [...] > > The paste hapens automatically, but it is a <Ctrl-V>-kind of paste, > > (desktop environment keyboard) not middle mouse click (x clipboard). > > This is the only access to the clipboard that exists in the web-ext > > API. > > I cannot understand how to make the automatic paste happen. > > If I select something and then hit [Ctrl+C], I still have to: > > * click on the Debian button in order to get a menu > * paste the copied selection with [Ctrl+V] into the text field > * click or right-click on one of the options It is supposed to work like this (and works like this for me, under GNOME/sid): * You select and copy e.g. a bug number * Click on the Swirl in the browser (tried firefox and firefox-esr from sid) - an automatic paste into the text input should happen * click or middle-click (for opening in a new tab) on some of the links in the window > This looks even slower than the other, X-clipboard-based procedure It is still slower, but at least there should not be any need to paste via Ctrl+V If the automated pasting does not work, I am not sure what the extension can do - it only has access to the API, and if that works here, maybe there is some difference in your environment. Perhaps you can compare the output of: * xclip -o (should output the text in the X selection buffer) * vis-clipboard --paste (should output the text that was copied via Ctrl+C; even when xclip -o does not output anything, because the X selection is empty) > It would be great, if, at least, the extension could read the X > clipboard, without using the text field. > If this could be implemented, the text field could be completely > removed and the user could select some text and then: > > * click on the Debian button > * click or right-click on one of the options > > It would still require twice as many clicks as the pre-webext version, > but it could be considered acceptable... I'd like to achieve this too :) I have opened a ticket in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494266 The text input is there only as an aid in case the user wants to make a small correction before choosing an option below. It can be ignored if its contents are filled automatically. -- dam
