On 2025-12-10 17:08:42 +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 10.12.2025 um 12:35:17 Uhr schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > > Under Linux X11, LibreOffice (Writer, Calc, Draw...) silently puts > > searched text into the PRIMARY selection when a search is active and > > its window gets the focus. This can yield such text to be disclosed > > to web sites (when one clicks with the middle button in some form) > > and to other applications using the same X server (without needing > > any action from the user). > > This behavior exists in various applications like browsers, when > focusing the address bar (I saw that in Pale Moon). Dunno if that is > related to the GTK toolkit. > > The common behavior for applications is that text is only copied to > primary if it is actively selected.
Here, with LibreOffice, this is worse, because this occurs whenever the LibreOffice window gets the focus. As a comparison, with Atril, when I choose "Save As...", the file name (without the extension) gets selected and the PRIMARY selection is modified (it gets this selection), which is bad. But at least, when I modify the PRIMARY selection by selecting something in another application and the focus is given back to the "Save As..." window, the PRIMARY selection is *not* modified (contrary to what happens with LibreOffice). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
