FVWM: how to? FakeClick for Middle button
sup. I like to use Shift + Insert for paste text from clipboard everywhere, and for example, when I run Firefox, want to press Shift + Insert for open URL from clipboard, like the mouse middle (button 2) click. Key Insert A S FakeClick depth 2 press 2 wait 250 release 2 doesn't work, and also try to change depth, but nothing happens... how to simulate mouse middle click button with Shift + Insert? :)
Re: FVWM: how to? FakeClick for Middle button
On 01/25/2013 08:23 AM, Spoofing wrote: sup. I like to use Shift + Insert for paste text from clipboard everywhere, and for example, when I run Firefox, want to press Shift + Insert for open URL from clipboard, like the mouse middle (button 2) click. Key Insert A S FakeClick depth 2 press 2 wait 250 release 2 doesn't work, and also try to change depth, but nothing happens... how to simulate mouse middle click button with Shift + Insert? :) First, not all applications like fake (or synthetic) events, and as per the man page FakeClick and FakeKeyPress are for debugging fvwm and not going to work in all situations. So your approach should be rethought. Second it is not firefox that 'pastes' when you click the middle mouse button. It is xorg that intercepts the middle mouse click and then sends the resulting paste to the window. So sending the middle mouse button click to the root window or the firefox window (or any other window) will note generate the paste event. Firefox does not know to paste when it receives a middle mouse click. On the other hand firefox and many applications honor the ctrl-V paste button. In my testing I got FakeKeyPress depth 2 modifiers 8 press v To work just fine and correctly paste something into chromium (provided I copied with ctrl-C from an application first). So that may work for you, but now you need to get a clipboard manager to keep the clipboard and cutbuffer in sync. It looks like something like 'autocutsel' may do that for you. Though it could be possible that there are more advanced clibboard managers and you could use one of those to not only keep the two methods of copying/pasting in sync can probably set up custom key bindings to send the clibboard to the desired window. This is the direction I would look. It looks like clipit may have that functionality. Using FakeKeyPress to make shift-insert work like ctrl-V will only work for applications which already honor ctrl-V so you are just changing the default. It will have no effect (or even other effects) because each application will honor the ctrl-V how ever it deems is correct. So even though that works in some applications it may not do what you want. So I think getting a clipboard manager that has the feature to set up a keybinding would be the direction to go (note I have never messed with them, so I am unsure what sort of things the clipboard managers can do). jaimos
Re: FVWM: how to? FakeClick for Middle button
| Second it is not firefox that 'pastes' when you click the middle mouse | button. It is xorg that intercepts the middle mouse click and then | sends the resulting paste to the window. So sending the middle mouse | button click to the root window or the firefox window (or any other | window) will note generate the paste event. Firefox does not know to | paste when it receives a middle mouse click. This portion is not correct. Neither the X server nor the window manager intercept middle mouse clicks and turn them into magic paste events (or into streams of characters). Pasting is entirely handled by the program involved and Firefox really does receive a middle mouse button click event[*] and then invoke its own code to paste stuff. Programs can and do do entirely different things in response to middle mouse buttons (for example, I am writing this email in a program that does something different with it). - cks [*: actually it doesn't even get a click event; it gets a button-down and then a button-up event in very close succession. Interested parties can use 'xev' to see exactly what event streams the X server sends in various circumstances. ]
Re: FVWM: how to? FakeClick for Middle button
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:09:16PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: | Second it is not firefox that 'pastes' when you click the middle mouse | button. It is xorg that intercepts the middle mouse click and then | sends the resulting paste to the window. So sending the middle mouse | button click to the root window or the firefox window (or any other | window) will note generate the paste event. Firefox does not know to | paste when it receives a middle mouse click. This portion is not correct. Neither the X server nor the window manager intercept middle mouse clicks and turn them into magic paste events (or into streams of characters). Pasting is entirely handled by the program involved and Firefox really does receive a middle mouse button click event[*] and then invoke its own code to paste stuff. Programs can and do do entirely different things in response to middle mouse buttons (for example, I am writing this email in a program that does something different with it). Thanks for the clarification. My experience was all xprograms accept middle click and with using gvim (or vim in a terminal) that it just accepts it as a string of data being sent directally to the program, so I thought this was an xorg mechnisim as opposed to implemented on a program per program basis. Then the issue for me then must be chromium didn't like synthetic mouse events (just ignores it) but would work with a FakeKeyPress. Back to the question of creating a nice paste key binding I have found the following. Most likely a clipboard manager will do what you want and you should look into that (As I suggested earlier) but if you really want to do this with fvwm you could try the following. First xorg has three buffers, primary, secondary and clipboard. The primary gets used in the select/middle mouse paste, while the clipboard gets used by some programs with ctrl-c/ctrl-v is the standard. So depending on which buffer you want to paste from adjust the following. Second, there is a tool called xsel which will give you the output of any of the three buffers (with primary being the default). You can use this program in conjecution with xdotool or xvkdb (send typing events to a window) and could paste the output of say the primary buffer to a paticular window with the command xdotool type $(xsel) So set that up as your key binding and it will send the output the the currently focused program. I would add some logic (or do selective key bindings) so you don't send the output to a program that wouldn't know what to do with the stream of keypresses. This doesn't seem as nice as telling the program itself to get the data from the correct buffer, but is a hack if you just want to send the buffer to the program and hope for the best. jaimos
