1699839 - Linux Debugger Window: Mouse selection doesn't appear in X11 primary buffer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1593761

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[johannes.thraen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.9.5 Chrome/56.0.2924.122 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Click Menu-> Web Developer -> Debugger -> Select text in debugger window on linux

Actual results:

Selected text did not end up in primary selection buffer. It could not be pasted into antother text field with middle mouse click.

Expected results:

Selected text should have ended up in primary selection buffer. It should have been pastable into antother text field with middle mouse click.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Debugger' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Hello, thanks for the report!

I am not sure what you mean by: "Click Menu-> Web Developer -> Debugger -> Select text in debugger window on linux"?
Are you simply talking about open the Debugger panel and select a source code in it?

Also it isn't clear to me that you mean by "Selected text did not end up in primary selection buffer.'

Here is what I've tried:

1. Open Developer Tools (e.g. F12 on Win, or Menu-> Web Developer -> Debugger)
2. Select the Debugger panel (if not selected by default)
3. Select any source code in the panel
4. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selection to the Clipboard (or use context menu "copy to clipboard")
5. The text should be in the clipboard => Works for me

Could you please provide similar (detailed) instructions for your case?

Thank you!
Honza

Comment 3

[johannes.thraen]

Hi,

Are you simply talking about open the Debugger panel and select a source code
yes

This is about the Linux X PRIMARY selection buffer, you tried the CLIPBOARD buffer.

Selecting the text (without pressing ctrl-c) should make the text available for pasting with middle click.

Thanks for looking into it :)

Comment 4

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Thanks for the update.

We are using CodeMirror (https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror) to show JS sources in the Debugger panel and this component is apparently not supporting primary selection buffer in Firefox (due to missing platform support)

See also: https://discuss.codemirror.net/t/primary-selection-buffer/765

I think core Firefox platform should be fixed to support the primary selection buffer (at least) on Linux.
I am moving it to Core -> DOM Events since the discussion above says: "Firefox doesn’t provide the events needed to do this, so there it doesn’t work."

Honza

Comment 5

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Since it's codemirror related, it's a duplicate of Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593761