[SOLVED] Firefox using emacs in plasma 6 wayland

[coarse shuttle]

For some reason firefox uses the emacs layout for text editing when I use wayland on plasma 6 on my arch install. I wasn't able to find anything online on how to fix that. If anyone also had the same issue and has a fix please let me know.

[woeful grove]

wdym by "emacs layout for text editing"?

[coarse shuttle]

basically when im in the address bar and do "ctrl + a" it jumps to the left and does not select everything

i don't use emacs but i double checked it with some emacs shortcuts and they all behaved this way when trying to do any text editing shortcuts in firefox

[woeful grove]

strange, have you checked for this behavior in a private window or maybe a new profile?

[coarse shuttle]

i'll check it rn

[coarse shuttle]

same thing on private window

also happens in a new profile

tbh why is wayland forced upon me this way? x11 worked just fine, i didn't want to switch but plasma 6 forced me. i thought about switching to it once but then i read that there are still a lot of issues

[woeful grove]

very strange, never heard about he issue before.

maybe have you tried clearing the cache or something?!

[coarse shuttle]

still does not work

i just did "ctrl + shift + del" to clear the firefox cache, did you mean something different?

[woeful grove]

does the issue only happens with firefox?

[coarse shuttle]

i also use brave (installed it with flatpak) works fine there

[woeful grove]

ohh

have you tried reinstalling firefox?(some broken config or something)

sudo pacman -S firefox

[coarse shuttle]

Still emacs

also did -R and then -S after it didn't work with just -S

i'm gonna reboot and check if anything changes

[woeful grove]

why, what was the problem with just -S

[coarse shuttle]

it still used emacs

i also get this on every reboot

probably because of mocz (japanese input) that one is also broken on wayland

no it actually works

[woeful grove]

strange, idk if that's the bug with KDE or something else.

[coarse shuttle]

i also have gnome installed, i'm gonna try it with that

same issue in gnome

[coarse shuttle]

tbh idk i guess i'll use x11, it works there

it's just annoying

[woeful grove]

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_-_Firefox

not sure if it will help you or not

[coarse shuttle]

did that, i guess the correct value is "Readline", also didn't work

no idea if plasma even uses gtk, the file did exist though

[woeful grove]

not sure about that, but ig firefox is a gtk based application

[coarse shuttle]

YESSSSS

IT WORKS

AFTER A REBOOT

ty so much

gtk-key-theme-name="Readline"

it was this line in ~/.gtkrc-2.0

[woeful grove]

but I don't think you should be using that as a permanent solution

[coarse shuttle]

why?

[woeful grove]

it should be on the Readline by default

idk what's overwriting that value

I don't have that option set in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0

[coarse shuttle]

i think i also tried that before, i wrote "Default" instead of "Readline" in there and that is the reason why it didn't work, i don't remember if that line was there at all before

I cloned my arch install to my pc, maybe i still have the original file there

can't check rn though

[woeful grove]

anyways, it's working

... solved

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[SOLVED] Firefox using emacs in plasma 6 wayland