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  • mouse pasting on Google/chrome/chromium has disappeared

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 27 21:35:04 2021
    Sudeenly the ability to mouse-paste on my Google Chrome/Chromium has disappeared. It still works on Firefox, but if I click the middle button
    on the address bar of either Chrome or Chromium, nothing happens. It
    does work on say Konsole, Firefox. It also does work on my wife's
    Chrome, but she runs Plasma, rather than XFCE which I run.

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 27 23:58:27 2021
    On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 21:35:04 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
    Sudeenly the ability to mouse-paste on my Google Chrome/Chromium has disappeared. It still works on Firefox, but if I click the middle button
    on the address bar of either Chrome or Chromium, nothing happens. It
    does work on say Konsole, Firefox. It also does work on my wife's
    Chrome, but she runs Plasma, rather than XFCE which I run.

    I would verify that is is a problem in your xfce account by using a test account. If xfce test account works, remove all chrom* files from your
    account and try again.

    If still broke
    cat /usr/share/doc/mageia-xfce-config/README.update.urpmi

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sun Mar 28 04:29:36 2021
    On 2021-03-27, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 21:35:04 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
    Sudeenly the ability to mouse-paste on my Google Chrome/Chromium has
    disappeared. It still works on Firefox, but if I click the middle button
    on the address bar of either Chrome or Chromium, nothing happens. It
    does work on say Konsole, Firefox. It also does work on my wife's
    Chrome, but she runs Plasma, rather than XFCE which I run.

    I would verify that is is a problem in your xfce account by using a test account. If xfce test account works, remove all chrom* files from your account and try again.

    If still broke
    cat /usr/share/doc/mageia-xfce-config/README.update.urpmi

    I finally logged out (after about 5 months) and on reloggin in, it workd
    again. Oh well, sorry to bothr you.

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Mar 28 08:07:30 2021
    On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 03:29:36 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
    On 2021-03-27, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 21:35:04 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
    Sudeenly the ability to mouse-paste on my Google Chrome/Chromium has
    disappeared. It still works on Firefox, but if I click the middle button >>> on the address bar of either Chrome or Chromium, nothing happens. It
    does work on say Konsole, Firefox. It also does work on my wife's
    Chrome, but she runs Plasma, rather than XFCE which I run.

    I would verify that is is a problem in your xfce account by using a test
    account. If xfce test account works, remove all chrom* files from your
    account and try again.

    If still broke
    cat /usr/share/doc/mageia-xfce-config/README.update.urpmi

    I finally logged out (after about 5 months) and on reloggin in, it workd again. Oh well, sorry to bothr you.


    Not a bother. Glad for the feedback. Having seen a few gotcha's by not following the /README.update.urpmi instructions I can recommend doing
    as instructed.

    You will need to do so when going to Mga8 because some settings have moved
    and some apps have be deleted.

    FYI: xfce users: xfconf-query can be uses to automate installing your
    settings using a script. I used it to dump default setup, made my changes, dumped those and used diff to get list of changes then use --set to
    set them via a script. Small snippet follows:


    #*********************************************************
    #* unset show filesystem, home, removable, trash icons
    #* set single and tooltip lengths and single click launch
    #*********************************************************

    _cmd="xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p"
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/file-icons/show-filesystem --set false
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/file-icons/show-home --set false
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/file-icons/show-removable --set false
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/file-icons/show-trash --set false
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/icon-size --create -t int --set 22
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/single-click --create -t bool --set true
    $_cmd /desktop-icons/tooltip-size --create -t double --set 40.000000





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