Can't paste into firefox

[MightyPork]

Hi, this is probably not something you can fix, but just in case you knew a workaround - the xdotool examples do not work for me with firefox, at all. Nothing is pasted.

I discovered it works great in

• Chrome, Sublime Text, Gnumeric, Libre Office, Gedit, gitk

doesn't work in:

• KWrite, Kate, Firefox, Konqueror

so maybe it works in GTK and Tcl/Tk apps and not in Qt apps? but I'm not sure. Thanks for any ideas

[eepp]

Hello! Thanks for using jome.

As you wrote, I'm not involved in xdotool in any way. I am aware that xdotool doesn't work all the time, and I couldn't say why honestly.

"Typing" into Chromium with xdotool used to just work, and then it stopped working for a few releases, and now it works again 😊. When it didn't work, I used xdotool, but also xsel to copy the emoji to the clipboard. So the usage sequence was:

1. Press keyboard shortcut to pop up jome.
2. Select emoji and then press Enter.
3. Press Ctrl+V to paste the emoji where the caret was.

Sometimes you play with delays and it can work too.

Closing this as it's not a jome bug.

Good luck with you emoji management!

[MightyPork]

Thanks, now I'm using this script. I hate it but it works so 🤷‍♂️ (inserted by jome 😂)

#!/usr/bin/bash

emoji="$(jome -n)"

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 1
fi

echo -n "$emoji" | xclip -selection clipboard
xdotool key --clearmodifiers shift+Insert

[eepp]

Wow, I never thought about this one. Great hack.

[Cruising0904]

Thanks, now I'm using this script. I hate it but it works so man_shrugging (inserted by jome joy)

#!/usr/bin/bash

emoji="$(jome -n)"

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 1
fi

echo -n "$emoji" | xclip -selection clipboard
xdotool key --clearmodifiers shift+Insert

in my wayland machine worked as expected with this script. I just used wl-copy instead of xclip, ydotool instead of xdotool. hope this helps somebody