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Open anuraag488 opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Hi There are some places where Paste or Ctrl+V doesn't work. Is it possible to add an option to write text from clipboard to such places?

anuraag488 avatar Feb 01 '24 03:02 anuraag488

Could you give an example of place where Ctrl+V doesn't work?

Related to https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/issues/242 This might also be related to https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/issues/195

Julow avatar Feb 01 '24 18:02 Julow

It struck me that OP has an app that does not support pasting from the clipboard and wants Unexpected to grab the clipboard text and type it in as keystrokes.

Spike-from-NH avatar Feb 01 '24 21:02 Spike-from-NH

I've stumbled with some passwords fields in the past that has some extra code to it to block a paste event on purpose. Which blows my mind because that hinders the use of a password manager use. So their security measures are counter-productive. So I agree with the previous post. A way to read the clipboard and "type" letter by letter, as a forcefull "paste" would be nice.

sdrapha avatar Feb 01 '24 23:02 sdrapha

If I recall correctly, Proxmox login page and Portainer login page are ones that don't take Paste. But there are many more out there.

sdrapha avatar Feb 01 '24 23:02 sdrapha

I think an implementation like in Gboard is good, that a copied text or content is shown so you know what you're pasting. Also, Gboard extracts information like email from a copied text so you can paste it directly without needing to delete stuff around.

Richard5A avatar Jan 03 '25 18:01 Richard5A

We now have a "Paste" key that you can enable in the settings.

Julow avatar Apr 13 '25 18:04 Julow