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Firefox&Xwindows question

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-02 20:21

Is there any way to clear a textbox by say right-clicking it and selecting "Clear" from the menu?

Right now, to delete, I have to select the whole text and press "Backspace" or "Delete" and that destroys my clipboard.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-02 21:13

Welcome to X-Windows :)

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-03 7:25

Firefox is supposed to have an XUL UI. So I should be able to change it through some CSS & JS trickery, no?

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-03 9:27

Try Ctrl-U.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-03 10:19

>>4
what the hell?

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-03 10:45

Yeah that's something I've never liked about X

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-03 13:21

Anyways, you should consider you lucky if the clipboard even works half of the time. Don't ask for more; welcome to X-Windows again :) .

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 1:39

The problem is with Firefox here. I just want a "Clear" button when I right-click a text-box.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 2:16

There is no fucking thing as X-Windows. Seriously, you have three different official titles, yet you still manage to pick a wrong one. How does that work?

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 3:26

>>8
It shouldn't depend on an application to get a textbox right. It's because of the half-assed way you copy and paste in X.

>>9
XFree86, or other X implementations.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 4:51

I believe the trick is to get used to using the select buffer only when you intend to paste it immediately, and use ctrl-c for anything you want to keep in the buffer for any length of time.

Having said that I still haven't gotten used to it.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 5:20

>>10
I believe he was referring to:
X
X Window System
X Window System, Version 11
X Version 11
X11

These are the official titles. Take a look at man X. "X Windows" is generally frowned upon (by the anal).

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 5:32

I like the select buffer because I don't have to use the keyboard to copy stuff.

How hard would it be to add a Clear button anyway?

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 6:53

>>5
position the cursor at the end (or maybe any other place) of the textbox and press 'ctrl' and 'u' on your keyboard. incidentally, pressing 'ctrl' and 'k' deletes from the current position to the end. i don't have firefox to test this, but both shortcuts should work with any modern x-toolkit.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-04 7:04

>>14
Problem is that firefox is not X. It is GTK.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-05 8:04

>>15
And GTK is a X-toolkit. Ctrl-U is recognized even by Motif and shells.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-06 0:39

>>16
Firefox has its own special toolkit, I think. It connects to GTK/Windows/Photon/QT etc. So it doesn't have any of the short cuts X has.

PS. GTK2 sucks. It can't do Ctrl-U or anything.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-06 7:34

Yeah I tried it out at home. c^U is short for "view page sauce"

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-06 9:20

PS. GTK2 sucks. It can't do Ctrl-U or anything.
Add 'gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"' to '~/.gtkrc-2.0'. Maybe that'll make some shortcuts work in Firefox.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-06 9:53

>>17
I'm more worried about it being fucking slow compared to Win32.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-06 9:59

>>20
truth. i try to avoid gtk2 whenever possible

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-12 10:38

I can press Ctrl-U in the gtk1 version of firefox and it clears.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-12 13:58

It does Ctrl-U; it's just that Ctrl-U is bound to 'view source'; correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's the traditional netscape behavoir.

Name: Anonymous 2005-07-12 15:58

Ctrl-U is 'view source' when the focus is not on a text-box. When the text-box is focused, Emacs keys sort of works.

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