Re: LibreOffice puts searched text into the PRIMARY selection (Linux, X11)

[Marco Moock <mm () dorfdsl de>]

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.

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Gruß
Marco

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