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Felitendo e5d2481d6d chore: 1.5.4
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2026-09-24 09:47:59 +02:00
Felitendo fc9dae95f9 fix: drop the detection cache on every update 2026-09-24 09:47:57 +02:00
Felitendo dd0671440d docs: commit and push only after a local check 2026-09-24 08:42:01 +02:00
Felitendo 0b1b33ea84 docs: reword how it works 2026-09-24 08:38:06 +02:00
Felitendo e3278ecf27 chore: 1.5.3
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2026-09-24 08:25:50 +02:00
Felitendo 2401855b70 fix: keep the flag in front of a bare double dash
Discord's entry is `discord --url -- %u`. The flag went in before the
field code, which put it after the double dash, and that is where
Chromium stops reading switches and starts treating everything as an
address. The feature never came on.
2026-09-24 08:24:15 +02:00
Felitendo da291cefa5 fix: recognise Discord's bootstrap launcher
Discord no longer ships its application. /usr/bin/discord is a few lines
of shell that run updater_bootstrap, which downloads Electron into the
user's config directory on first start and execs it from there. So there
is no binary next to the launcher to find markers around, and the path it
hands over to is built out of $HOME and the version it just downloaded,
which the script reader cannot resolve. Discord came out as "not
Chromium" and was dropped from the list entirely.

The name of the bootstrap it ships is the one thing left that says
Discord, so that is the hint now.
2026-09-24 08:24:15 +02:00
Felitendo e2e05748f7 docs: explain steam and the browser flag names 2026-09-24 08:22:09 +02:00
Felitendo c20ea98de4 chore: 1.5.2
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2026-09-24 02:01:16 +02:00
Felitendo d0d977ff56 docs: cut the readme down, fold the details 2026-09-24 02:00:33 +02:00
Felitendo cf48fc47df fix: say 1 minute ago, not 1 minutes ago 2026-09-24 02:00:33 +02:00
Felitendo 335d4cc9ec docs: show the menu as real screenshots 2026-09-24 02:00:33 +02:00
Felitendo c7222d22bd docs: add a changelog and the release notes flow 2026-09-24 02:00:33 +02:00
Felitendo 4fffba005d ci: take the release notes from the changelog 2026-09-24 01:13:05 +02:00
Felitendo b93d0f5f1e docs: add commit rules to claude.md 2026-09-24 01:13:05 +02:00
Felitendo d39e669743 docs: coffee button and bug report link 2026-09-24 01:13:05 +02:00
Felitendo f9826edc24 chore: switch funding to buy me a coffee 2026-09-24 01:13:05 +02:00
Felitendo 5e645acbd0 docs: add icon and centered readme header 2026-09-21 14:06:54 +02:00
Felitendo 1042639a08 docs: add claude.md and avoid dashes 2026-09-21 14:00:02 +02:00
Felitendo ab8c6477cb chore: move to LoonixTools 2026-09-21 13:07:19 +02:00
Felitendo 0fbe8bdb39 chore: 1.5.1
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2026-09-15 19:12:54 +02:00
Felitendo a992efb0cb fix: pass Brave's autoscroll feature name to browsers 2026-09-15 19:01:01 +02:00
Felitendo b97ccf0379 chore: toned down readme 2026-09-15 08:44:43 +02:00
Felitendo 7a446364dc feat: identify AppImages by reading their squashfs name table
Every AppImage came out as "cannot tell" because the payload is a
compressed filesystem and none of the Chromium markers is on disk to be
found. The names are reachable, though: squashfs keeps the name of
everything it holds in one table of a few kilobytes, and a name is all
this question needs. That table is now read and inflated in place -
nothing is unpacked, and the image is never run, which a scan started by
the path unit has no business doing anyway.

So a Tauri AppImage such as Modrinth is recognised as WebKitGTK and
dropped from the list instead of being offered as something that could be
switched on - there is no autoscroll in WebKit to ask for - and an
Electron one is covered like any other application.

Left as "cannot tell": lzo and lz4, which squashfs stores as bare blocks
no tool will read without their own framing, and the original ISO9660
layout.

Alongside:

- The detect cache carries a format line. Its entries are keyed on size
  and mtime, so an AppImage that has not changed would otherwise keep
  answering the way an older version decided it did, forever.

- A marker list for whole-tree searches, which is what a Flatpak, a snap
  and an AppImage need. icudtl.dat, snapshot_blob.bin and resources.pak
  are out of it: Flutter ships an icudtl.dat in data/, and next to a
  binary those names are evidence while four directories down they are
  not. The Flatpak and snap searches now share that list.
2026-09-14 14:06:23 +02:00
Felitendo 449a20ce9b chore: added funding 2026-09-08 14:33:51 +02:00
Felitendo ae4e8b9294 chore: 1.5.0
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KDE's own middle-click paste is turned off along with everything else. Inside a
Chromium application the flag already settles it - with autoscroll on, Blink
stops pasting the primary selection - but everywhere else on the desktop middle
click goes on pasting, which is the thing this program exists to get away from.

KWin has a switch for it on a Wayland session, where the paste is a protocol
the compositor either offers or does not, and that is what gets written. It is
true from the next login on. What the key said before is recorded, so disable
puts it back, and a key that already said no is left alone and never switched
back on. X11 has no such switch and nothing is written there.

Off under Settings for anyone who wants the paste kept.
2026-09-08 14:01:06 +02:00
Felitendo b4fa0edf28 docs: reword the install steps 2026-09-08 14:01:06 +02:00
Felitendo e09b145f3a fix: install the user units where systemd will find them
A build with a prefix of its own put them in $(PREFIX)/lib/systemd/user, which
is right for /usr/local and wrong for the one prefix an install without root
can use: systemd searches $XDG_DATA_HOME/systemd/user and never
~/.local/lib/systemd/user. An install into ~/.local came out with a working
program whose watcher could not be enabled at all.

They go under share now, which both a system prefix and a home one are
searched for. Nothing changes for the packages - the deb and the rpm pass
USERUNITDIR in themselves.

That prefix is what an atomic distribution leaves a user, so the readme says
how to install on Bazzite: layer the rpm and reboot, or put the whole thing in
$HOME, which is where everything it writes ends up anyway.
2026-09-08 13:38:39 +02:00
Felitendo 004094ef78 feat: turn off KDE's middle-click paste
Inside a Chromium application the flag settles this on its own - with
autoscroll on, Blink stops pasting the primary selection. Everywhere else
on the desktop middle click goes on pasting, which is the thing this whole
program exists to get away from.

KWin has a switch for it, on Wayland, where the paste is a protocol the
compositor either offers or does not: EnablePrimarySelection in kwinrc.
Written with kwriteconfig, the way System Settings would, because kwinrc
has a cascade behind it. What the key said before goes in the ledger, so
disable puts it back - and a key that already said false is left alone and
not recorded, so a paste the user switched off themselves is never
switched back on.

X11 has no such switch and nothing is written there.
2026-09-08 13:30:43 +02:00
Felitendo 0c4e7645d0 docs: rework the readme 2026-09-08 13:30:43 +02:00
Felitendo c777e8280d chore: 1.4.0
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Steam's helper script is only patched when the patch keeps the file at the
length Steam wrote down. Where the comments cannot pay for the argument,
nothing is written at all: a file of the wrong length costs the whole client
package downloaded and installed again, and a client that quits at the end of
it instead of coming up.

With no such patch left to prop up, -noverifyfiles is gone from everything that
carried it - Steam's launcher entry, its autostart entry, the shortcut on the
desktop and the ones Steam writes for single games. Steam repairs its own
installation again, and nothing of this program's is on its command line. A
patch an earlier version appended is rebuilt to fit at the next apply, or taken
back if it cannot be.

A script somebody puts in front of the client to add a switch of its own is
recognised as a way of starting Steam, rather than as an application to hand
the flag to.

A desktop entry edited in place that the ledger has lost is written again from
the copy kept beside it. Without that, an entry from an older version kept an
older answer for good - a browser patched that way stayed on the flag that
shows the "unsupported command-line flag" bar while every other browser moved
off it in 1.3.0.
2026-09-06 14:00:43 +02:00
Felitendo 2ea64d0603 fix: write the current answer into an entry the ledger forgot
A desktop entry that was edited in place is left alone once it carries the
marker, and the only thing that ever writes it again is the undo a change of
flags goes through - which reads the ledger. So an entry the ledger has lost is
one nothing looks at any more: it keeps whatever an older version put on its
command line, and an update that moves browsers to a different flag moves every
browser but that one.

The copy taken before the edit is named after the path, not recorded in the
ledger, and is still there. A marked entry with no ledger line is now put back
from that copy and written again from scratch, which is the same thing the undo
would have done, and it lands in the ledger on the way out.

Only entries edited in place need this. A generated entry is built from the
source entry every time and is right by construction, and a flag file has its
block rewritten whenever the contents differ.
2026-09-06 13:58:11 +02:00
Felitendo dcdf2c1df3 fix: never leave Steam a file it would reinstall itself over
The patch that keeps the script's length was the good path and appending was
the fallback, with -noverifyfiles on everything that starts Steam to cover for
it. That cover does not exist.

Steam checks its files at the shutdown it runs itself, not only at a start
somebody handed arguments to, and that run carries no -noverifyfiles whatever
the session was started with. One wrong length there costs the whole client
package downloaded, extracted and installed again - and the client quits at the
end of it instead of coming up, which is the "Steam just closed itself" that
this was seen as:

    BVerifyInstalledFiles: steamwebhelper.sh is 130 bytes, expected 84
    Update wird heruntergeladen ... Paket wird extrahiert ...
    Aktualisierung abgeschlossen, Steam wird geladen ... Shutdown

So the flag now either fits in the space the comments give back or it is not
written at all, and the status screen says Steam is not patched. No autoscroll
in the interface is a far smaller thing than a client that reinstalls itself.

With no growing patch left to prop up, -noverifyfiles has nothing to do and is
gone with everything that carried it: Steam's launcher entry, its autostart
entry, the shortcuts on the desktop and the ones it writes for single games.
Steam repairs its own installation again. An installation from an older version
is taken back once through the flag scheme, and a patch that version appended
is rebuilt to fit at the next apply - or taken back, if the comments cannot pay
for it.
2026-09-05 01:07:15 +02:00
Felitendo c1841ec169 fix: recognise a wrapper script in front of Steam as Steam
A script somebody puts in front of the client to add a switch of its own is
still a way of starting Steam, but nothing recognised it as one: the check is
by name, and the script is not called steam.

Such a script tends to name the flag it exists to add, and that flag is one of
the markers the hint scan reads as "this is Chromium". The entry was therefore
handled as an application and had the flag appended to every Exec line of it,
where Steam ignores it, instead of being handed to the Steam module - so the
interface it was pointing at never got autoscroll, and the launcher entry never
got Steam's own switch either.

The handover a launcher script makes is now followed one step, and a script
that hands over to Steam counts as Steam. One step is all there is: the
client's own launcher is recognised by name already.
2026-09-05 00:51:42 +02:00
Felitendo e1c77f049f chore: 1.3.0
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A browser no longer shows the "unsupported command-line flag" bar. It is given
--enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll, which asks for the same feature
without being on the list of flags Chromium warns about; everything that embeds
an older Chromium keeps the flag that works there, and shows no bar either way.

Helium gets its own name for the feature alongside it, so autoscroll works
there for the first time.

An installation from 1.2.0 or earlier is taken back and written again on the
next apply.
2026-09-05 00:44:52 +02:00
Felitendo fa624380b1 fix: keep the unsupported-flag warning off browsers
--enable-blink-features is on the list of flags Chromium warns about, so every
browser the flag was applied to put a yellow "unsupported command-line flag"
bar above each page.

Browsers are given --enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll instead. It asks for
the same thing - Blink generates a feature of the same name for each of its
runtime flags - and is not on that list. That spelling only works from Chromium
124 onwards, so everything else keeps the flag that works everywhere: an
application embedding an older Chromium, Steam's CEF among them, has no such
bar to show anyway.

Helium knows the feature under a name of its own and ignores the Chromium one,
so browsers are asked for HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll as well; autoscroll never
worked there before. A name a browser does not know is ignored, which is what
makes one list safe for all of them.

An installation set up by an earlier version is taken back and written again
once, because a file that is already marked as patched would otherwise be left
alone with the old flag in it.
2026-09-05 00:44:47 +02:00
Felitendo d8900ef80f docs: show the TUI in the readme 2026-09-04 13:02:13 +02:00
Felitendo 46e63e9faa docs: rewrite the readme in plain words 2026-09-04 12:59:50 +02:00
Felitendo af82ffec78 chore: 1.2.0
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Steam's autoscroll stops depending on -noverifyfiles: the patch is written at
the size and timestamp Steam recorded, so the client's own file check finds
nothing to repair and the flag survives whichever way Steam was started. An
installation patched by 1.1.0 is redone at the original size on the next apply.

Also picks up the launch paths that were never covered - shortcuts on the
desktop, Steam as a Flatpak, steam-native and steam-jupiter.
2026-09-01 13:24:20 +02:00
Felitendo b7e0ff6fd1 fix: make the Steam patch survive Steam's own file check
Steam's autoscroll worked, except when it didn't. Every report of that came
down to the same thing: Steam started in a way that carried no -noverifyfiles,
noticed the patched web helper script, put its own copy back, and spent the
session without the flag. There is no way to make every possible way of
starting Steam carry an argument - a game launcher, a shortcut, a terminal,
another program calling `steam steam://` - so the patch stops depending on it.

The check is on size and timestamp, not on content, so the patch is now written
to look untouched: the bytes the flag costs come back out of the script's own
comments, and the timestamp of the untouched copy is restored afterwards. The
file Steam finds is exactly as long and exactly as old as the one it wrote. A
client that verifies its files finds nothing to repair. -noverifyfiles stays as
the fallback for a script with no comments left to pay for the flag.

Two things fall out of that. A patch that keeps the size no longer has to wait
for Steam to close, because there is no size mismatch for the client to chase;
only the growing one still defers. And an installation patched by the earlier
version is quietly redone at the original size on the next apply, so the fix
arrives without anyone having to know about it.

Then the launch paths that were never covered:

- Shortcuts on the desktop itself. Nothing in the XDG search path looks at
  that folder, so nothing had ever seen them - and Steam writes one there for
  every game somebody asks for a shortcut to. Its name is translated, so it is
  read from user-dirs.dirs and handed to the watcher in a drop-in.
- Steam as a Flatpak was never recognised as Steam, so its entry got nothing
  while its script got patched - the worst of both. The switch goes after the
  application id there, where flatpak passes it on rather than reading it.
- steam-native and steam-jupiter, which are ordinary Steam starts under
  another name, and Flatpak and snap entries in ~/.config/autostart.

Two things found on the way: a client update left the undo copy holding the
script from before the update, so undoing would have put an old version back;
and a shortcut edited in place and later deleted would have been recreated by
`disable`.
2026-09-01 13:21:57 +02:00
Felitendo ced6f57dfd chore: 1.1.0
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Two features since 1.0.3: it works on distributions other than Arch, and
there are packages and a signed repository to get it from.
2026-08-24 11:09:13 +02:00
Felitendo 21e29d99c3 docs: get the Pages setup steps into an order that works
The branch is created by the first release, and a branch that does not exist
cannot be selected in the Pages settings - so telling somebody to set Pages
first sends them into a wall. Release first, point Pages at it second.

Also says what happens if Pages is left on main: the source tree gets served
at the address the install instructions name, and every one of them 404s.
2026-08-24 11:08:05 +02:00
Felitendo c31c7b92e5 docs: shorten and rewrite the README 2026-08-24 11:01:02 +02:00
Felitendo 0bbf0cbd9f docs: how to try the release path before tagging 2026-08-24 10:55:48 +02:00
Felitendo 70f6748f3c test: make the release path runnable without cutting a tag
The publish job had never run. It is the part that produces the apt and dnf
repositories, which is to say it is the whole update mechanism, and finding
out whether it works when a tag is already pushed is the wrong time.

A dry run now builds both repositories with a key generated on the spot,
verifies the three signatures it wrote, and then installs the packages back
out of them - apt on the runner, dnf in a Fedora container - so the thing
being tested is the thing that runs. Nothing is pushed and no release is
created.
2026-08-24 10:53:30 +02:00
Felitendo aaa41f0384 chore: move the workflows off the deprecated Node 20 actions
The runners force actions/checkout@v4 and the artifact actions onto Node 24
already and warn about it on every run. Current majors instead, so the
annotation goes away and the pin says what is actually running.
2026-08-24 10:42:07 +02:00
Felitendo a053b4e555 feat: packages and a signed repository for Debian and Fedora
The code works on those distributions now; there was still nothing to
install. This adds the two packages and, more to the point, somewhere for
them to live that hands out updates - a package a user has to notice a new
version of and download again is not much better than a checkout.

Both are built from `make install` and nothing else. A packaging script that
lists the installed files a second time is a second description of the
layout, and the two drift the first time a file moves; here the Makefile
stays the only place that says where anything goes. The .deb is staged and
wrapped with dpkg-deb, the .rpm goes through a spec whose %install is the
same make invocation. Both are architecture-independent, so one file each
covers Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives on one side and Fedora, RHEL and
openSUSE on the other.

The version is not written down twice either. The Makefile has it, the
control file and the spec take it as a placeholder, and check-version.sh
refuses a tag that disagrees - otherwise a v1.0.4 release quietly ships a
program that reports 1.0.3.

The release workflow builds both in a Debian and a Fedora container, signs
the RPM where there is a native rpm-sign, attaches both to the GitHub
release, and then adds them to an APT and a DNF repository on gh-pages,
regenerating the indexes over every version ever published so that pinning
and going back to one still work. Missing the signing key is not an error:
it builds, it says in the log that the repositories were left alone, and the
packages are still on the release.

There is also a check workflow, which is the first time shellcheck actually
runs on this.

Neither package carries a maintainer script. The units are enabled per user
by the program itself, so there is nothing for a package to do as root - and
nothing it could do about the changes in a user's home either, which is why
both descriptions say to run `disable` before removing.

packaging/README.md has the two things that cannot be automated: making the
signing key, and pointing Pages at the branch.
2026-08-24 10:40:15 +02:00
Felitendo 36498f2acf feat: work on distributions other than Arch
The README asked for "Arch or an Arch derivative" and the code had two
reasons for it. Neither of them was the mechanism, which is why this is
mostly a matter of not assuming.

The first was the flag file. Arch wraps Electron and Chromium in launchers
that read $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf, and that route is the good
one - it survives upgrades and applies to a launch from a terminal. Debian,
Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE keep the equivalent under /etc, where it is the
system's file and not the user's, so there is nothing to write and those
applications have to go through their desktop entry instead. That already
worked, because a launcher is read rather than assumed - but only if the
launcher was recognised as Chromium at all, and it was not:

    APPNAME=chromium
    LIBDIR=/usr/lib/chromium
    exec -a "$APPNAME" "$LIBDIR/$APPNAME" $CHROMIUM_FLAGS "$@"

is the shape every one of those wrappers has, and following it needs the
assignments above resolved and -a understood as renaming the process rather
than naming the program. Both are done now, and the wrappers that still
cannot be followed are caught by CHROMIUM_FLAGS and CHROME_WRAPPER, which
nothing but a Chromium launcher sets. Two applications on the machine this
was written on turn out to have been missed for the same reason: Helium,
whose wrapper is followed to a payload full of markers, and ONLYOFFICE,
which ships libcef.so.

Resolving more wrappers made an old inference dangerous. Any launcher that
could be followed also had "<target>-flags.conf" invented for it, on the
theory that a wrapper builds that name from a variable at runtime. For an
application that simply execs its own binary that file is read by nobody:
the flag would have gone to ~/.config/DesktopEditors-flags.conf and the
desktop entry that would have worked was skipped. The name is now derived
only once the target has shown it reads a flag file at all.

The second reason was snaps. /snap/bin/<name> is a symlink to snapd, so
following it lands on /usr/bin/snap and says nothing; the payload is in the
mounted revision, and that tree takes the same marker check as anything
else. They get a settings switch of their own next to Flatpak, and the
launcher entry as their only way in.

Packaging is now a gate in front of the category rather than a category
beside it. A Chromium installed as a snap or a Flatpak was filed as neither
an application nor a browser, so turning browsers off did not reach it -
which on Ubuntu means the default browser. It is a browser that happens to
be packaged as a snap, and both switches apply.

The rest is the same not-assuming: Steam is found in Debian's
~/.steam/debian-installation and in the snap's private tree, the Flatpak
and snap export directories are scanned even when a session started before
they were installed left them out of XDG_DATA_DIRS, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
counts as a shared directory the way /usr/lib does, the watcher covers
snapd's export directory and the NixOS and Guix profiles, LANG is read from
/etc/default/locale as well as /etc/locale.conf, and the systemd user unit
directory is asked of systemd instead of guessed - while still following a
PREFIX that was asked for.
2026-08-24 10:23:47 +02:00
Felitendo bd84c6645a Stop offering Steam games as applications
Steam writes a desktop entry for every game somebody asks for a shortcut
to, and it starts the same program the client's own entry does:

    Exec=steam steam://rungameid/3527290

The scan only ever looked at the first token, found steam there, and filed
the game under the same kind as the client. So PEAK sat in the applications
list reading "on (Steam)", counted towards the applications covered, and
offered a space bar to switch it off again - as though it were something
this program had anything to offer. It is not: a game is whatever engine it
was built with, and none of them reads a Chromium argument.

An entry carrying a steam:// address of its own is not a program, it is one
more way of starting Steam. The client's own entry never has one - it takes
an address from the outside, through %U - and that is what tells the two
apart. Those entries go to the Steam module now instead of into the list.

They keep -noverifyfiles, for the same reason the rest of the Steam handling
has it: starting a game with the client closed is a Steam start like any
other, and without the switch it finds the patched web helper script, puts
its own copy back, and the interface loses autoscroll for the rest of the
session.
2026-08-24 10:06:29 +02:00
Felitendo f42d80598f fix: keep Steam out of an endless update loop
Steam compares its installed files against its manifest at every start and
restores whatever differs, which is why its launcher entry carries
-noverifyfiles. The entry in ~/.config/autostart never got it: it points at
/usr/bin/steam, a shell script, so it fell through the Chromium filter in
mca_autostart_apply and was left alone.

A Steam started at login therefore verified, found the web helper script 46
bytes larger than the manifest says, restored it, and the path unit patched
it straight back - an update dialog that begins again every few seconds and
never finishes. The same client started from the menu was fine, which is
what made it look like a problem of Steam's own.

The autostart entry now carries the switch as well. It follows the Steam
setting rather than the autostart one, because leaving it out while Steam is
patched is exactly what causes the loop.

That covers the entry that exists; a terminal or a script still starts Steam
without the switch. So the patch no longer fights back either: a script that
was patched before, is not patched now, and belongs to a client that is
still running has just been restored by Steam, and doing it again would only
have the two of them undoing each other. It waits for the next apply with
Steam closed - the helper is started once, at the start, so patching it now
would not have helped that session anyway.

Also: Steam does not checksum that script, it compares sizes - the log says
"Verifying file sizes only" - while the comments and the documentation
claimed otherwise. And the status screen now tells a patch that is waiting
from one that is missing, instead of reporting both as not patched yet.
2026-08-24 10:01:27 +02:00
Felitendo 4004023297 Make the second menu entry an action instead of a report
"Apply now" had nothing to do in the normal case. Enabling applies, the
watcher handles everything installed afterwards, and the settings and
applications screens apply on their way out - so pressing it answered
"already applied to 14 applications" and that was the whole interaction.

It is now "Re-apply everything": the state is taken back and written again
from scratch. That is the answer to the question the status block can raise
but nothing could act on - Steam showing as not patched after a client
update, an application that drifted, a flag file edited by hand.

Uninstalling an application used to leave the entry shadowing it behind, in
the user home where the package manager cannot see it, offering to start a
program that is gone. A plain apply only looks at what exists now, so the
watcher never noticed either. Those are removed on every apply now, not just
when rebuilding.
2026-08-16 20:44:19 +02:00
Felitendo 9896260636 Describe what this does, not which applications it happens to cover
A list of names reads like a compatibility list, invites the question of
whether the one you care about is on it, and is out of date the moment
something new turns up. The point is that there is no list: every launcher
is examined and the Chromium-based ones are identified by what they ship.
2026-08-16 20:20:44 +02:00
Felitendo 5b1fc84710 Never mistake an entry edited in place for one we generated
A desktop entry that already lives in ~/.local/share/applications is the
user's own file, patched in place with the original kept aside. It used to
get the same X-MCA-Generated marker as a shadow copy, which made the next
scan skip it, fall back to the system entry, and overwrite the user's file
with a shadow - and then delete it on revert instead of restoring it.

The two cases now carry different markers. Only a shadow is skipped by the
scan and deleted when undoing; an entry patched in place stays in the scan
and is restored from its backup.

Also: resolve the applications screen's labels once instead of per row per
keypress, and drop code nothing calls.
2026-08-16 19:56:19 +02:00
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Builds the GitHub release notes for a tag, the way big projects such as
# Immich lay them out: the hand-written entry from CHANGELOG.md (a welcome,
# the highlights), a support section, then every commit since the last
# release, sorted by kind, and a link to the full changelog.
#
# .github/release-notes.sh v1.2.0 the notes
# .github/release-notes.sh --title v1.2.0 the title (checks the entry exists)
#
# Commit authors come from the GitHub API through gh. Without it the list
# goes without them.
set -euo pipefail
cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.."
title=0
if [[ ${1:-} == --title ]]; then
title=1
shift
fi
tag="${1:?usage: release-notes.sh [--title] vX.Y.Z}"
if ! grep -qx "## $tag" CHANGELOG.md; then
echo "CHANGELOG.md has no entry for $tag. Add \"## $tag\" first." >&2
exit 1
fi
if (( title )); then
printf '%s\n' "$tag"
exit 0
fi
repo="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY:-$(git remote get-url origin | sed -E 's#^.*github\.com[:/]##; s#\.git$##')}"
name="${repo#*/}"
# The entry: up to the next one, without the date line (GitHub shows the
# date), one heading level up, outside code blocks.
entry="$(awk -v h="## $tag" '
$0 == h { on = 1; next }
on && /^## / { exit }
!on { next }
/^```/ { code = !code }
!code && /^_[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}_$/ { next }
!code && /^###/ { sub(/^#/, "") }
{ print }
' CHANGELOG.md | sed -e '/./,$!d')"
# The commits: from the last release, or from the start. A tag that does not
# exist yet is a preview of what HEAD would become.
if git rev-parse -q --verify "refs/tags/$tag" > /dev/null; then
target="$tag"
prev="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --match 'v[0-9]*' "$tag^" 2>/dev/null || true)"
else
target="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
prev="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --match 'v[0-9]*' HEAD 2>/dev/null || true)"
fi
declare -A login=()
if command -v gh > /dev/null; then
if [[ -n $prev ]]; then
api=(api "repos/$repo/compare/$prev...$target" --jq '.commits[] | [.sha, (.author.login // "")] | @tsv')
else
api=(api --paginate "repos/$repo/commits?sha=$target&per_page=100" --jq '.[] | [.sha, (.author.login // "")] | @tsv')
fi
while IFS=$'\t' read -r sha who; do
[[ -n $who ]] && login[$sha]="$who"
done < <(gh "${api[@]}" 2>/dev/null || true)
fi
declare -A list=()
count_maint=0
while IFS=$'\t' read -r sha subject body; do
# Version bumps say nothing a reader needs.
[[ $subject =~ ^(chore:\ )?($name\ )?v?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]] && continue
case "$subject" in
*!:*) kind=breaking ;;
feat:* | feat\(*) kind=feat ;;
fix:* | fix\(*) kind=fix ;;
perf:* | perf\(*) kind=enh ;;
docs:* | docs\(*) kind=docs ;;
chore* | ci:* | ci\(* | build* | refactor* | test* | style*) kind=maint ;;
# Older commits without a prefix, sorted by what they say.
*README* | *readme* | *Readme*) kind=docs ;;
Add\ * | Put\ * | Introduce\ *) kind=feat ;;
Fix\ * | Repair\ * | Recover\ * | Stop\ *) kind=fix ;;
*\ *) kind=enh ;;
*) kind=maint ;;
esac
[[ $body == *"BREAKING CHANGE"* ]] && kind=breaking
[[ $subject == "Initial commit" ]] && kind=maint
line="* $subject"
[[ -n ${login[$sha]:-} ]] && line+=" by @${login[$sha]}"
line+=" in https://github.com/$repo/commit/$sha"
list[$kind]+="$line"$'\n'
[[ $kind == maint ]] && count_maint=$((count_maint + 1))
done < <(git log --reverse --no-merges --format='%H%x09%s%x09%b%x1e' "${prev:+$prev..}$target" | tr '\n\036' ' \n' | sed 's/^ //')
changes=''
for pair in "breaking:🚨 Breaking Changes" "feat:🚀 Features" "enh:🌟 Enhancements" "fix:🐛 Bug fixes" "docs:📚 Documentation"; do
kind="${pair%%:*}"
[[ -n ${list[$kind]:-} ]] || continue
changes+="### ${pair#*:}"$'\n'"${list[$kind]}"
done
if [[ -n ${list[maint]:-} ]]; then
changes+=$'\n'"<details><summary>🧰 Maintenance ($count_maint)</summary>"$'\n\n'"${list[maint]}"$'\n'"</details>"$'\n'
fi
if [[ -n $prev ]]; then
full="**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/$repo/compare/$prev...$tag"
else
full="**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/$repo/commits/$tag"
fi
# A release with highlights is a big one: it gets a heading and the support
# section, as in Immich. A patch is a sentence or two and the list.
if grep -q '^## Highlights$' <<< "$entry"; then
cat <<EOF
# 🚀 $name $tag
$entry
## ☕ Support $name
If $name is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee. It keeps these tools going. Found a bug or have an idea? Tell me in the [issues](https://github.com/$repo/issues).
<a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/felitendo"><img src="https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/v2/default-yellow.png" alt="Buy Me A Coffee" height="48"></a>
----
EOF
else
printf '%s\n\n' "$entry"
fi
printf "## What's Changed\n%s\n\n%s\n" "$changes" "$full"
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name: check
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
check:
name: syntax and shellcheck
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
# The Makefile skips whatever is missing rather than failing, so the
# tools it looks for have to be here or the check checks less than it
# appears to.
- name: Install the tools the Makefile looks for
run: |
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
shellcheck gettext scdoc
- run: make check
- name: Build the catalogs and the man page
run: make build
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name: release
on:
push:
tags: ['v*']
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
dry_run:
description: >-
Build the repositories with a throwaway key and install from them,
without publishing anything. This is how the release path gets
exercised without cutting a tag.
type: boolean
default: false
permissions:
contents: write
jobs:
deb:
name: Debian package
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container: debian:stable
steps:
- name: Install the build tools
run: |
apt-get update -qq
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
ca-certificates git make gettext scdoc dpkg-dev
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
- name: Check the tag against the Makefile
run: packaging/check-version.sh "${{ github.ref_name }}"
- name: Check CHANGELOG.md has this release
if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
run: .github/release-notes.sh --title "${{ github.ref_name }}"
- run: packaging/build-deb.sh
- name: Look inside what was built
run: |
dpkg-deb --info dist/*.deb
dpkg-deb --contents dist/*.deb
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
with:
name: deb
path: dist/*.deb
if-no-files-found: error
rpm:
name: RPM package
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container: fedora:latest
steps:
- name: Install the build tools
run: |
dnf install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False \
git make gettext scdoc tar rpm-build rpm-sign systemd-rpm-macros
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
- name: Check the tag against the Makefile
run: packaging/check-version.sh "${{ github.ref_name }}"
- run: packaging/build-rpm.sh
# Signed here rather than alongside the APT repository, because this is
# the one place with a native rpm-sign. A dry run signs with a key it
# makes on the spot, so the command itself is still exercised.
- name: Sign the package
env:
GPG_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
if [ "$DRY_RUN" = "true" ]; then
gpg --batch --passphrase '' --quick-generate-key \
'dry run <dry-run@example.invalid>' rsa2048 sign never
elif [ -n "${GPG_PRIVATE_KEY:-}" ]; then
printf '%s' "$GPG_PRIVATE_KEY" | gpg --batch --import
else
echo "No GPG_PRIVATE_KEY secret; leaving the package unsigned."
exit 0
fi
keyid="$(gpg --list-secret-keys --with-colons | awk -F: '/^sec:/ { print $5; exit }')"
rpmsign --define "_gpg_name $keyid" --addsign dist/*.rpm
gpg --armor --export "$keyid" > dist/rpm-signer.asc
rpm --import dist/rpm-signer.asc
rpm --checksig dist/*.rpm
- name: Look inside what was built
run: |
rpm -qip dist/*.rpm
rpm -qlp dist/*.rpm
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
with:
name: rpm
path: |
dist/*.rpm
dist/rpm-signer.asc
if-no-files-found: error
publish:
name: Release and repositories
needs: [deb, rpm]
if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') || inputs.dry_run
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# All tags, for the link to the changes since the last release.
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
with:
path: incoming
merge-multiple: true
- name: Attach the packages to the release
if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
.github/release-notes.sh "${{ github.ref_name }}" > notes.md
gh release create "${{ github.ref_name }}" \
--title "$(.github/release-notes.sh --title "${{ github.ref_name }}")" \
--notes-file notes.md \
incoming/*.deb incoming/*.rpm \
|| gh release upload "${{ github.ref_name }}" \
incoming/*.deb incoming/*.rpm --clobber
- name: Install the repository tools
run: |
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
dpkg-dev apt-utils createrepo-c
- name: Get a signing key
id: key
env:
GPG_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
if [ "$DRY_RUN" = "true" ]; then
gpg --batch --passphrase '' --quick-generate-key \
'dry run <dry-run@example.invalid>' rsa2048 sign never
elif [ -n "${GPG_PRIVATE_KEY:-}" ]; then
printf '%s' "$GPG_PRIVATE_KEY" | gpg --batch --import
else
echo "present=no" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "::warning::No GPG_PRIVATE_KEY secret, so the apt and dnf repositories were not updated. The packages are on the release."
exit 0
fi
echo "present=yes" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Check out the published repositories
if: steps.key.outputs.present == 'yes' && !inputs.dry_run
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
ref: gh-pages
path: pages
continue-on-error: true
- name: Update the repositories
if: steps.key.outputs.present == 'yes'
run: |
# First release, or a dry run: there is no branch to start from.
if [ ! -d pages/.git ]; then
rm -rf pages && mkdir pages
git -C pages init -q -b gh-pages
git -C pages remote add origin "https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}.git"
fi
rm -f incoming/rpm-signer.asc
packaging/publish-repos.sh pages incoming
- name: Check that what was written can be verified
if: steps.key.outputs.present == 'yes'
run: |
find pages -type f -not -path '*/.git/*' | sort
echo '--- Release ---'; cat pages/deb/Release
echo '--- Packages ---'; cat pages/deb/Packages
gpg --verify pages/deb/InRelease
gpg --verify pages/deb/Release.gpg pages/deb/Release
gpg --verify pages/rpm/repodata/repomd.xml.asc pages/rpm/repodata/repomd.xml
# The proof that the repository works is apt reading it: the signature,
# the index, the dependencies and the program that comes out the far end.
- name: Install from the repository that was just built
if: inputs.dry_run
run: |
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg < pages/KEY.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg] file://$PWD/pages/deb ./" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/middleclick-autoscroll.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y middleclick-autoscroll
middleclick-autoscroll --version
middleclick-autoscroll list
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
if: inputs.dry_run
with:
name: pages
path: pages
include-hidden-files: true
- name: Push them
if: steps.key.outputs.present == 'yes' && !inputs.dry_run
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
cd pages
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git add -A
git diff --quiet --cached && { echo "nothing changed"; exit 0; }
git commit -q -m "Publish ${{ github.ref_name }}"
git push "https://x-access-token:${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/${{ github.repository }}.git" HEAD:gh-pages
verify-dnf:
name: Install from the RPM repository
needs: publish
if: inputs.dry_run
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container: fedora:latest
steps:
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
with:
name: pages
path: pages
# A real run signs the package and the repository metadata with the one
# key from the secret. A dry run has no secret, so each job made a key of
# its own and both public halves are needed to check both signatures.
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
with:
name: rpm
path: signer
- name: Install from the repository that was just built
run: |
rpm --import pages/KEY.gpg
rpm --import signer/rpm-signer.asc
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo <<EOF
[middleclick-autoscroll]
name=middleclick-autoscroll
baseurl=file://$PWD/pages/rpm
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file://$PWD/pages/KEY.gpg
EOF
# util-linux is for runuser below; the base image does not carry it,
# and util-linux-core is not the half that has it.
dnf install -y middleclick-autoscroll util-linux
# As somebody, not as root: running it as root is refused, which is
# the point of it, and a container is root by default.
useradd -m tester
runuser -u tester -- middleclick-autoscroll --version
runuser -u tester -- middleclick-autoscroll list
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# build artifacts
po/*.mo
doc/*.1
# packages
dist/
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# Changelog
What each release brings, newest first. The [GitHub releases](https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/releases) add every commit that went into it. Versions before `v1.1.0` came without notes.
## v1.5.4
_2026-09-24_
A small patch. For some of you Discord was still missing after `v1.5.3`, because an old result from before the update kept it out. Every update now starts with a fresh scan, so Discord shows up again after your next login, or right away with **Re-apply everything**.
## v1.5.3
_2026-09-24_
A small patch. Discord changed the way it installs itself and slipped out of the list, so autoscroll never reached it. It is back.
## v1.5.2
_2026-09-24_
A small patch. The menu now says "1 minute ago" instead of "1 minutes ago".
## v1.5.1
_2026-09-15_
A small patch. Autoscroll now works in Brave, which has its own name for it. AppImages are recognised too: an Electron AppImage gets autoscroll like any other app, and one that cannot autoscroll at all, like Modrinth, is left out of the list.
## v1.5.0
_2026-09-08_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.5.0`! A middle click now scrolls everywhere instead of pasting text.
<p align="center">
<img width="620" alt="The middleclick-autoscroll menu in Konsole, with middle-click paste off" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/22bd4f2a3dd89c4cb90fb497c69762b5df7dc6e7/res/screenshots/menu.png">
</p>
### Highlights
- Middle-click paste is off
## v1.4.0
_2026-09-06_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.4.0`! This one is all about Steam.
### Highlights
- Steam stops reinstalling itself
- Scripts that start Steam
## v1.3.0
_2026-09-04_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.3.0`! Browsers look clean again, and Helium joins the list.
### Highlights
- No more warning bar in browsers
- Autoscroll in Helium
## v1.2.0
_2026-09-01_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.2.0`! Steam keeps its autoscroll now, however you start it.
### Highlights
- Steam keeps autoscroll
- More ways to start Steam
## v1.1.0
_2026-08-24_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.1.0`! It now works far beyond Arch, with packages that keep themselves up to date.
### Highlights
- Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE
- Packages that update with your system
- Steam fixes
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# CLAUDE.md
## Style
- Keep everything short: replies, explanations, comments, docs.
- Use simple English: short sentences, common words.
- Avoid em dashes (—). Do not just swap them for "-" either. Rewrite the sentence instead, for
example with a comma, a colon, brackets or two sentences.
## Commits
- English only.
- Conventional Commits prefix: `feat:`, `fix:`, `chore:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`, `ci:`, `build:`.
- Subject as short as possible. Imperative, lowercase, no trailing period.
- Body only when something genuinely cannot be inferred from the diff.
- Never add `Co-Authored-By`, "Generated with" or any other AI attribution to commits or PR descriptions.
- Do not commit or push before I have checked the changes locally and said they are fine. Then
commit the result once and push. No commits for attempts that did not work. This also goes for
releases and tags.
## Releases
Releases look like the ones of big projects such as Immich. `.github/release-notes.sh <tag>` builds
the notes: the entry from `CHANGELOG.md` (welcome and highlights), a support section, every commit
since the last release sorted by its prefix (`feat`, `fix`, `docs`, ...) with author and link, and
the full changelog link. So commit subjects end up in public: keep them clear.
1. Read `git log <last tag>..HEAD` and pick the version: only fixes → patch, something new → minor,
something that breaks or needs the user to act → major.
2. Bump the version and add the entry at the top of `CHANGELOG.md`, in one commit (`chore: 1.4.0`).
3. Push, then push the tag: `git tag v1.4.0 && git push origin main v1.4.0`. The `release` workflow
builds the packages and creates the release. It stops before building when the entry is missing.
4. PKGBUILDS picks up the new release for the AUR on its own.
A minor or major release (has `### Highlights`, gets a heading and the support section):
```markdown
## v1.4.0
_2026-09-24_
Welcome to middleclick-autoscroll `v1.4.0`! One or two sentences on what this release is about.
<p align="center">
<img width="480" alt="What the picture shows" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/v1.4.0/<path>">
</p>
### 🚨 Breaking changes
- Only if there are any: what changed, and what the user has to do.
### Highlights
- First highlight, a few words
- Second highlight
```
A picture under the welcome is optional. To show the menu or another screen of the program, use a
real screenshot of it running in Konsole, in English. Never a text copy of the screen. The same goes
for the README. The highlights stay a plain list: no heading or text per highlight, the list of
commits explains the rest.
A patch release is just a sentence or two, for example: "A small patch. The menu no longer closes
when you press Enter." The list of commits follows on its own.
- Write for users: what they notice, not how the code does it. Friendly and simple.
- Commands and settings they type go in backticks, buttons and labels in bold.
- To change an old release: edit its entry, commit, then
`gh release edit <tag> --title <tag> --notes "$(.github/release-notes.sh <tag>)"`.
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# middleclick-autoscroll - build and install
# middleclick-autoscroll: build and install
#
# Everything here is plain shell; "building" only means compiling the gettext
# catalogs and rendering the man page. Both targets degrade to a no-op when
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
# Overridable so a packager can pass the version it is actually building
# (`make VERSION=$pkgver`). The literal below is the fallback for builds
# straight from a checkout, and is what a release tag has to carry.
VERSION ?= 1.0.0
VERSION ?= 1.5.4
PREFIX ?= /usr
DESTDIR ?=
@@ -17,7 +17,24 @@ DATADIR ?= $(PREFIX)/share
LIBDIR ?= $(DATADIR)/middleclick-autoscroll/lib
LOCALEDIR ?= $(DATADIR)/locale
MANDIR ?= $(DATADIR)/man
USERUNITDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/lib/systemd/user
# Where systemd looks for user units. For a normal install into /usr this is
# asked of systemd itself, because the answer is not the same everywhere. A
# distribution that still keeps /lib separate from /usr/lib says so here. It is
# only guessed at when there is no systemd installed to ask.
#
# A build with a prefix of its own keeps the units under that prefix instead,
# and under share rather than lib. systemd searches both for a system prefix,
# but only share for a home one: $XDG_DATA_HOME/systemd/user is a search path
# and ~/.local/lib/systemd/user is not, so an install into ~/.local that put
# the units in lib would leave the watcher impossible to enable. That prefix is
# the one an atomic distribution leaves a user: there is no writing to /usr on
# Bazzite or Silverblue without layering a package and rebooting.
ifeq ($(PREFIX),/usr)
USERUNITDIR ?= $(shell pkg-config --variable=systemduserunitdir systemd 2>/dev/null || echo /usr/lib/systemd/user)
else
USERUNITDIR ?= $(DATADIR)/systemd/user
endif
LINGUAS := de
MOFILES := $(patsubst %,po/%.mo,$(LINGUAS))
@@ -28,24 +45,30 @@ LIBS := $(wildcard src/lib/*.sh)
MSGFMT := $(shell command -v msgfmt 2>/dev/null)
SCDOC := $(shell command -v scdoc 2>/dev/null)
.PHONY: all build install uninstall check clean
.PHONY: all build install uninstall check clean version
all: build
build: $(MOFILES) $(MANPAGE)
# The one place the version is written down, for everything that has to agree
# with it: the packaging scripts, and the release workflow checking that the
# tag it was handed says the same thing.
version:
@echo $(VERSION)
po/%.mo: po/%.po
ifdef MSGFMT
$(MSGFMT) --check --output-file=$@ $<
else
@echo "msgfmt not found - skipping $@"
@echo "msgfmt not found, skipping $@"
endif
$(MANPAGE): doc/middleclick-autoscroll.1.scd
ifdef SCDOC
$(SCDOC) < $< > $@
else
@echo "scdoc not found - skipping $@"
@echo "scdoc not found, skipping $@"
endif
# Syntax-check every shell file, and run shellcheck when it is available.
@@ -57,7 +80,7 @@ check:
shellcheck -x -e SC1090,SC1091 src/middleclick-autoscroll $(LIBS); \
echo "ok shellcheck"; \
else \
echo "shellcheck not found - skipped"; \
echo "shellcheck not found, skipped"; \
fi
@if command -v desktop-file-validate >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
echo "ok desktop-file-validate (nothing to check)"; \
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# middleclick-autoscroll
<p align="center">
<img width="200" src="res/middleclick-autoscroll.svg" alt="middleclick-autoscroll">
</p>
Middle-click autoscroll — hold the middle mouse button, move the pointer, the
page scrolls — for every Chromium-based application on the system. Discord,
Vesktop, Equibop, VS Code, Obsidian, Signal, Spotify, Steam, Chromium-based
browsers, and whatever gets installed next week.
<h1 align="center">middleclick-autoscroll</h1>
<h3 align="center">Middle-click autoscroll in every app that supports it.</h3>
<p align="center">
Browsers, Electron apps like Discord and Spotify, Steam and anything else built on Chromium.
</p>
<h5 align="center">
<a href="#install">Install</a> |
<a href="#how-to-use">How to use</a> |
<a href="https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/issues">Report a bug</a>
</h5>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/felitendo"><img src="https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/v2/default-yellow.png" alt="Buy Me A Coffee" height="48"></a>
</p>
## Install
<details>
<summary><b>Arch</b></summary>
```bash
paru -S middleclick-autoscroll
middleclick-autoscroll enable
yay -S middleclick-autoscroll
```
That is the whole setup. Nothing else has to be configured, and no file has to
be edited.
</details>
## Why this needs a program at all
<details>
<summary><b>Fedora</b></summary>
Blink — the engine inside Chromium, Electron and CEF — has had Windows-style
autoscroll for years. On Linux it is switched off, because middle click is
already taken by primary-selection paste. One command line argument turns it
back on:
```bash
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
sudo dnf install middleclick-autoscroll
```
</details>
<details>
<summary><b>Bazzite</b></summary>
```bash
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
sudo rpm-ostree install middleclick-autoscroll
systemctl reboot
```
</details>
<details>
<summary><b>Debian</b>, Ubuntu</summary>
```bash
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/KEY.gpg \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg] https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/deb ./" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/middleclick-autoscroll.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install middleclick-autoscroll
```
</details>
<details>
<summary><b>openSUSE</b></summary>
```bash
sudo rpm --import https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/KEY.gpg
sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck --refresh \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/rpm middleclick-autoscroll
sudo zypper install middleclick-autoscroll
```
</details>
## How to use
```bash
middleclick-autoscroll
```
<p align="center">
<img src="res/screenshots/menu.png" alt="The middleclick-autoscroll menu in Konsole: autoscroll on, 19 of 19 applications covered" width="620">
</p>
Press **1**. Autoscroll _✨just works✨_, like on Windows.
<details>
<summary>Applications</summary>
**3** lists every app it found. Space turns one on or off.
<p align="center">
<img src="res/screenshots/applications.png" alt="The applications list in Konsole, each with how it gets autoscroll" width="620">
</p>
</details>
## More
<details>
<summary>How it works</summary>
Chromium, Electron and CEF all have autoscroll built in. On Linux it is off, because middle click
pastes there. One flag turns it back on:
```
--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll
```
Getting that argument into one application is a five-minute job. Getting it into
all of them, in a way that survives the next package upgrade, is not:
Adding it to every app by hand is a pain, and updates can undo it. This tool does it for you:
- Some applications read a flag file, some don't.
- Some ship their own copy of Electron, some use the system one.
- Flatpaks see none of the host's configuration.
- An application that starts itself at login uses a different entry than the one
in the menu, and Discord launched at login used to behave differently from
Discord launched by hand.
- Steam takes no arguments for its interface at all, and puts back any file you
change.
- Every upgrade can undo the lot.
- It finds every app built on Chromium. AppImages too, without unpacking or starting them.
- It puts the flag where the app reads it: the app's flags file, or a copy of its menu entry in
your home folder.
- It watches for new apps and covers them on their own.
- It only writes to your home folder, and `disable` puts everything back.
## The interface
**Browsers** get a spelling of the flag that shows no warning bar. Brave and Helium also get their
own name for the feature. A browser ignores names it does not know.
`middleclick-autoscroll` on its own:
**Steam** builds its own command line and repairs any file that looks changed. So the flag goes into
the script that starts its web helper, and the file keeps the size and date Steam expects. Steam
finds nothing to repair, and autoscroll works in the store and the library. After a Steam update,
the patch comes back on its own.
```
Middle-Click Autoscroll
</details>
Autoscroll ON
Applications covered 14 of 15
Not identified 1 - see the applications list
Steam ON
New applications ON
Last applied 3 minutes ago
Applications pick this up the next time they are started.
[1] Turn autoscroll on or off
[2] Apply now
[3] Applications
[4] Settings
[q] Quit
```
**[3] Applications** lists everything that was found, how each one is handled,
and lets a single application be switched off — or an unrecognised one switched
on — with the space bar:
```
Applications
▸ Vesktop on (flag file)
Discord on (flag file)
Code - OSS on (flag file)
Obsidian on (flag file)
Signal on (flag file)
Spotify on (launcher)
Steam on (Steam)
Cursor cannot tell
```
**[4] Settings** has the categories — Electron and CEF applications, browsers,
Flatpaks, autostart entries, Steam, Spotify, whether to watch for new
applications, and a field for extra Chromium arguments if you want any.
There is a configuration file behind all of this. You are never asked to open
it.
## Where the argument actually goes
Two routes, picked per application.
<details>
<summary>Commands</summary>
| | |
|---|---|
| **Flag file** | Arch's Electron and Chromium wrappers read extra arguments from `~/.config/<name>-flags.conf`. This is the good one: it is the supported way to pass arguments, it survives package upgrades untouched, and it applies to a launch from a terminal as much as one from the menu. |
| **Desktop entry** | For applications that ship their own binary with no wrapper, and for Flatpaks, a copy of the entry with the argument appended goes into `~/.local/share/applications`, where it shadows the system one. |
| `middleclick-autoscroll` | The menu |
| `… enable` | Turn on |
| `… disable` | Undo everything |
| `… apply` | Pick up new apps |
| `… status` | What is covered |
| `… list` | All apps and how they are handled |
Entries that already live in `~/.local/share/applications` — AppImages, web app
shortcuts — are edited in place and the original is kept. So are the entries in
`~/.config/autostart`, so an application that starts itself at login gets the
same treatment as one started from the menu.
</details>
An `--enable-blink-features` that is already there is **extended**, never
repeated. Chromium keeps only the last occurrence of that option, so a second
one would silently switch off whatever the first one enabled.
## Steam
Steam's interface is CEF and supports the feature perfectly well, but Steam
builds the command line for its web helper itself and offers no way to add to
it. The only place an argument fits is the script that starts the helper, inside
Steam's own installation:
```
~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
```
Steam checksums that script at every start and restores it when it differs, so
its launcher entry also gets `-noverifyfiles`. **The trade-off is real**: with
verification off, Steam no longer repairs a damaged installation by itself. That
is why Steam is a switch of its own rather than part of the general handling —
turn it off in the settings and Steam is left completely alone.
The script comes back on every client update. The watcher notices and puts the
patch back.
Starting Steam from a terminal without `-noverifyfiles` undoes it for that one
session; the next start from the menu has it again.
## Applications installed later
A systemd user path unit watches every directory a launcher can appear in —
`/usr/share/applications`, the Flatpak exports, `~/.local/share/applications`,
`~/.config/autostart` — plus Steam's helper script. Anything new is handled
within a second of being installed, whether it came from pacman, the AUR,
Flatpak or an AppImage manager. There is no hook to install per package manager.
## What it will not guess
An AppImage keeps its payload in a compressed filesystem, so there is no way to
tell from the outside whether Chromium is in there. Those show up as **cannot
tell** and are left alone until you switch them on from the applications screen.
Detection is deliberately conservative everywhere else too. A wrong "yes" would
append an unknown argument to something that is not Chromium, and plenty of
programs treat an unrecognised argument as a file name to open.
## Undoing it
```bash
middleclick-autoscroll disable
```
Every change is recorded in a ledger as it is made, and `disable` replays it
backwards: generated entries are deleted, edited files are restored from their
backups, flag files that only ever contained our line are removed, and a flag
file that was merged into loses exactly the one feature that was added to it.
Files that were not touched by this program are not touched by it now either.
Run this before uninstalling the package.
## Commands
| | |
|---|---|
| `middleclick-autoscroll` | the menu above |
| `… enable` | turn it on, apply, start watching |
| `… disable` | turn it off and put everything back |
| `… apply` | apply to anything new (this is what the watcher calls) |
| `… status` | what is covered |
| `… list` | every application that was found and how it is handled |
See `man middleclick-autoscroll` for the details.
## Requirements
Arch or an Arch derivative (CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro), bash, systemd for
the watcher. Nothing outside your home directory is ever written to, and running
it as root is refused.
## Building from source
<details>
<summary>Build from source</summary>
```bash
make
sudo make install
```
`make check` runs `bash -n` and, if installed, `shellcheck` over every script.
Optional: `msgfmt` for translations, `scdoc` for the man page.
## License
</details>
GPL-3.0-or-later.
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# NAME
middleclick-autoscroll - middle-click autoscroll for Chromium-based applications
middleclick-autoscroll - middle-click autoscroll in every application that supports it
# SYNOPSIS
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ on the command line.
and puts that argument somewhere the application will actually read it, then
keeps doing so for anything installed later.
A browser is given *--enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll* instead. It asks
for the same feature, because Blink generates a feature of that name for each
of its runtime flags. But it is not on the list of flags Chromium warns about,
so the browser does not put a bar reading "You are using an unsupported command-line
flag" above every page. That spelling only works from Chromium 124 onwards,
which is why everything else keeps the first one: an application that embeds an
older Chromium, such as Steam's CEF, has no such bar to show anyway. Two
browsers know the feature under a name of their own and ignore Chromium's:
Helium, which is asked for *HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll* as well, and Brave,
which is asked for *MiddelButtonClickAutoscroll* (spelled the way Brave spells
it). A name a browser does not know is ignored. It works on any distribution:
which of the routes below an application takes is read off its launcher, not
assumed from where the launcher came from.
Run without a command it shows an interactive menu. Everything it can be told
is reachable from there; the configuration file behind it does not need to be
edited by hand.
@@ -36,10 +50,17 @@ is refused.
*disable*
Turn it off and put every file that was changed back the way it was.
*apply*
*apply* [*--rebuild*]
Apply to anything that has appeared since the last run. This is what the
watcher calls; running it by hand is only needed when the watcher is off.
Entries left behind by an application that has since been uninstalled are
removed here too. The entry shadowing it lives in the user's home, where
the package manager that removed the application cannot see it.
With *--rebuild* everything is taken back first and written again from
scratch. That is the repair: it does not care what looks correct already.
*status*
How many applications are covered, whether Steam is patched, and when the
last run was.
@@ -59,27 +80,47 @@ is refused.
Two ways, chosen per application.
*Flag file*
Arch's Electron and Chromium wrappers read extra arguments from
Where the launcher reads extra arguments from
_$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf_. This is the preferred route: it is
the supported way to pass arguments, it survives package upgrades, and it
applies to a launch from a terminal as much as one from the menu. An
*--enable-blink-features* line that is already in the file is extended
rather than duplicated - Chromium keeps only the last occurrence of that
option, so a second one would switch the first one off.
applies to a launch from a terminal as much as one from the menu. A
feature list that is already in the file is extended rather than
duplicated. Chromium keeps only the last occurrence of such an option, so
a second one would switch the first one off.
Arch's Electron and Chromium packages all wrap their binaries this way, and
so do a number of individual vendors' launchers elsewhere. Whether a given
launcher does is read off the launcher itself, never assumed from the
distribution: only one that really names such a file takes this route.
*Desktop entry*
For applications that ship their own binary with no wrapper, and for
Flatpaks, a copy of the desktop entry with the argument appended is written
to _~/.local/share/applications_, where it shadows the system one. Entries
that already live there - AppImages, web app shortcuts - are edited in
place, with the original kept. Every generated entry is marked with
*X-MCA-Generated*; an entry that is not marked is somebody else's and is
left alone.
everything inside a Flatpak or a snap, a copy of the desktop entry with the
argument appended is written to _~/.local/share/applications_, where it
shadows the system one. Entries that already live there (AppImages, web
app shortcuts) are edited in place, with the original kept.
This is the route everything takes on the distributions whose Chromium
wrappers keep their equivalent file under _/etc_, where it is the system's
to write and not the user's: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE among
them.
A generated entry is marked *X-MCA-Generated* and an entry edited in place
*X-MCA-Patched*. The two are never confused: the first is deleted when
undoing, the second is restored from its backup. An entry with neither
marker belongs to somebody else and is left alone.
Programs that start themselves at login write their own entry into
_~/.config/autostart_ pointing straight at their binary, bypassing the menu
entry entirely. Those are patched in place as well.
Shortcuts on the desktop itself are patched in place too. Nothing in the XDG
search path looks at that folder, so a shortcut that lives only there would
otherwise be invisible. And Steam puts one there for every game somebody asks
for a shortcut to. The folder's name is translated, and the name in use is read
from _~/.config/user-dirs.dirs_ rather than guessed; the watcher is told about
it in a drop-in written when autoscroll is turned on.
# STEAM
Steam's interface is CEF and supports the feature, but Steam builds the command
@@ -88,28 +129,110 @@ helper, inside Steam's own installation:
~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
Steam checksums that script at every start and restores it when it differs, so
its launcher entry also gets *-noverifyfiles*. The trade-off is that Steam no
longer repairs a damaged installation on its own; that is why Steam is a switch
of its own in the settings.
Where that installation is depends on how Steam was installed:
_~/.local/share/Steam_ for Valve's own package and Arch's,
_~/.steam/debian-installation_ for Debian's, and the private tree of the
sandbox for the Flatpak and the snap. All of them are looked at.
Starting Steam from a terminal without *-noverifyfiles* undoes the patch for
that session. The watcher notices and puts it back, so the next start has it
again.
Steam compares the installed files against its manifest at every start (by
size and timestamp, not by content) and restores whatever differs. So
the patch is written to look untouched: the bytes the argument costs are taken
back out of the script's own comments and the timestamp is put back afterwards,
leaving a file exactly as long and exactly as old as Steam left it. A client
that checks its files finds nothing to repair, and the argument survives
however Steam was started: from the menu, from a game shortcut, from a
launcher like Heroic or Lutris, or from a terminal.
That is what has to work, because it is the only thing that does. A patch that
changes the length is never written, whatever else could be done to cover for
it: Steam checks its files at the shutdown it runs itself as well as at a start
it was given arguments for, and that one carries no arguments of anybody's. One
wrong length costs the whole client package downloaded, extracted and installed
again, and a client that quits at the end of it instead of coming up.
So where the comments cannot pay for the argument, or a client update has
changed how the helper is started, nothing is written and the status screen
says Steam is not patched. Nothing goes on Steam's launcher entry, its
autostart entry or the shortcuts it writes for single games either, and Steam
goes on repairing its own installation.
An installation patched by an earlier version, which appended where the
comments were short, is written again to fit at the next apply, or taken back
if it cannot be made to.
A client update brings a new version of the script. The watcher notices and
patches it again, and the copy kept for undoing is replaced with the new
version at the same time, so undoing puts back the script Steam last shipped
rather than the one from before the update.
# SPOTIFY
The official client is CEF rather than Electron. Installed through
*spotify-launcher*, it is started by a program that builds its own command line
and has a configuration file with a slot for extra arguments; that slot is
where the flag goes. Installed as a plain package, it is an ordinary desktop
entry and needs nothing special.
where the flag goes. Installed as a plain package, a Flatpak or a snap, it is
an ordinary desktop entry and needs nothing special.
# WHAT CANNOT BE DETECTED
# MIDDLE-CLICK PASTE
An AppImage keeps its payload in a compressed filesystem, so there is no way to
tell from the outside whether it contains Chromium. Those are listed as *cannot
tell* and left alone until they are switched on from the applications screen.
Inside a Chromium application the argument settles this on its own: with
autoscroll on, Blink stops pasting the primary selection on middle click,
because the button is doing something else now. Everywhere else on the desktop
middle click goes on pasting, so the desktop's own switch for it is turned off
too.
KDE has such a switch, and only for a Wayland session, where the paste is a
protocol the compositor either offers or does not:
~/.config/kwinrc, [Wayland], EnablePrimarySelection=false
It is written with *kwriteconfig6*, the same tool System Settings uses, because
kwinrc has a cascade behind it and entries a distribution can mark immutable;
an edit that reaches past all that writes something KDE goes on to ignore. KWin
reads the key once, while it starts, so the change is true from the next login
on rather than straight away.
What the key said before is recorded, and *disable* puts that back. A key that
already said *false* before any of this is left alone and not recorded either,
so a paste the user switched off themselves is never switched back on.
On X11 there is nothing to switch. The primary selection is part of X itself
and every toolkit reaches for it on its own; no one place can say no. The
status screen leaves the row out where there is nothing to report.
Turn it off under *Settings* to keep the desktop's middle-click paste.
# APPIMAGES
An AppImage is the AppImage runtime, an ordinary executable, with a squashfs
image appended to it. The payload is compressed, so none of the files that
identify Chromium is on disk where it could be found.
The names are, though. squashfs keeps the name of everything it holds in one
table of its own, a few kilobytes of it, and a name is all this question needs -
so that table is read and decompressed in place. Nothing is unpacked, and the
image is never run: this can happen from the watcher, and starting a program
because it was installed is not something a scan gets to do.
Two kinds of image are still out of reach. One is packed with *lzo* or *lz4*,
which squashfs stores as bare blocks that neither tool will read without the
framing their own file formats add. The other is the original AppImage layout,
which is an ISO9660 filesystem rather than a squashfs one. Both are listed as
*cannot tell* and left alone until they are switched on from the applications
screen.
# WHAT HAS NO FLAG AT ALL
Autoscroll is a Blink feature, so only an application drawn by Blink can be
given it. An application built on WebKitGTK is not one of those. That
includes Tauri on Linux, GNOME Web, and anything else linked against
libwebkit2gtk. WebKit has no equivalent feature to ask for, on any command line
or in any configuration file.
Such an application is identified as what it is and then left out of the list
entirely, rather than being offered as something that could be switched on. An
application that is absent from *list* is absent because there is nothing this
tool could do for it.
# FILES
@@ -123,20 +246,39 @@ _~/.local/state/middleclick-autoscroll/ledger_
_~/.local/state/middleclick-autoscroll/backup/_
Copies of the files that are edited in place rather than shadowed.
_~/.config/kwinrc_
KDE's own configuration. One key in it, *EnablePrimarySelection*, is
written when the desktop's middle-click paste is turned off, and put
back by *disable*.
_~/.cache/middleclick-autoscroll/detect_
Which programs were found to be Chromium, keyed by size and modification
time. Safe to delete.
time. Its first line says which version of the program wrote it, and a
file from an older one is ignored rather than trusted. Otherwise an entry
for a file that has not changed would never be looked at again.
Safe to delete.
# ENVIRONMENT
*NO_COLOR*
Disables colour.
# REQUIREMENTS
Bash 4.2 or newer and GNU coreutils. The watcher needs a systemd user session;
without one everything else works and applications installed later are picked
up at the next *apply* rather than on their own.
*gzip* is what reads the name table of an AppImage, and *xz* or *zstd* the ones
packed with those instead. None of the three is required: an image whose
compressor has no tool installed is listed as *cannot tell*, exactly like the
two formats there is no reader for at all.
# SEE ALSO
*systemctl*(1), *flatpak*(1)
*systemctl*(1), *flatpak*(1), *snap*(8), *kwriteconfig6*(1)
# AUTHORS
Felitendo. Source and issue tracker at
https://github.com/Felitendo/middleclick-autoscroll
https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll
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# Packaging and releases
The Makefile installs everything; these only wrap what it produced. That is
on purpose: a packaging script that lists the files again is a second
description of the layout, and two descriptions drift.
| | |
|---|---|
| `deb/control`, `deb/copyright` | metadata for the Debian binary package |
| `rpm/middleclick-autoscroll.spec` | the RPM spec |
| `build-deb.sh`, `build-rpm.sh` | build one package into `dist/` |
| `check-version.sh` | refuses a tag that disagrees with the Makefile |
| `publish-repos.sh` | regenerates the APT and RPM repositories |
| `pages/` | the landing page and the `.repo` file served from GitHub Pages |
Neither package carries a maintainer script. The units are enabled per user by
the program itself, and there is nothing to do as root at install time.
## Building one by hand
```bash
packaging/build-deb.sh # needs dpkg-dev, gettext, scdoc
packaging/build-rpm.sh # needs rpm-build, gettext, scdoc, systemd-rpm-macros
```
Both take the version from `make version` unless one is passed as the first
argument.
## Making a release
1. Bump `VERSION` in the Makefile.
2. Add the release to `CHANGELOG.md`, in the format CLAUDE.md describes.
3. Commit, then `git tag vX.Y.Z && git push --tags`.
The `release` workflow builds both packages in a Debian and a Fedora container,
refuses the tag if it disagrees with the Makefile or has no changelog entry,
attaches the packages to a GitHub release with the entry as its notes, and adds
them to the APT and RPM repositories on the `gh-pages` branch. Nothing else has
to be done by hand.
## Trying the release path first
```bash
gh workflow run release.yml -f dry_run=true
```
Builds both packages, builds both repositories with a key generated on the
spot, checks the three signatures it wrote, and then installs the packages back
out of the repositories (apt on the runner, dnf in a Fedora container). Nothing
is pushed and no release is made. This is worth running after any change to the
packaging, because the alternative is finding out from a tag.
## Setting up the signing, once
The repositories are signed, so this needs a key. Make one that exists for
nothing else (not a personal key) and give it no passphrase. It lives as an
encrypted repository secret, and `rpmsign` cannot be handed a passphrase
unattended.
```bash
gpg --batch --passphrase '' --quick-generate-key \
'middleclick-autoscroll repository <felitendoyt@gmail.com>' rsa4096 sign never
gpg --armor --export-secret-keys 'middleclick-autoscroll repository' \
| gh secret set GPG_PRIVATE_KEY
```
Without the secret the workflow still builds both packages and attaches them to
the release; it says so in the log and leaves the repositories alone.
## Pointing Pages at it, once, in this order
The `gh-pages` branch does not exist until a release has put something on it,
and a branch that does not exist cannot be picked in the Pages settings. So:
1. Set the secret, above.
2. Tag a release. The workflow creates the branch and fills it.
3. *Then* set **Pages** to deploy from a branch and pick `gh-pages` at the
root.
Doing it the other way round is a wall, and leaving Pages pointed at `main`
serves the source tree at the address the install instructions name. Then the
key and the indexes are 404 and nothing installs.
## What users end up with
The public key is published as `KEY.gpg` beside the repositories, and the
landing page carries the setup lines for each distribution. After that, a new
version arrives with `apt upgrade`, `dnf upgrade` or `zypper up` like anything
else.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Builds the binary package for Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives into
# dist/.
#
# Everything the package contains comes out of `make install`. This only wraps
# what that produced, so there is exactly one description of where a file goes
# and it is the Makefile. A packaging script that lists the files again is a
# second description, and the two drift.
#
# Needs: make, dpkg-deb, msgfmt (gettext), scdoc.
set -euo pipefail
here="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
version="${1:-$(make -s -C "$here" version)}"
name=middleclick-autoscroll
# A package without its man page or its translations is not a package this
# should be quietly willing to produce: the Makefile skips both when the tools
# are missing, and the result would look like a successful build.
for tool in msgfmt scdoc dpkg-deb; do
command -v "$tool" > /dev/null || { echo "$0: $tool is not installed" >&2; exit 1; }
done
root="$(mktemp -d)"
trap 'rm -rf -- "$root"' EXIT
make -C "$here" install \
DESTDIR="$root" \
PREFIX=/usr \
VERSION="$version" \
USERUNITDIR=/usr/lib/systemd/user
install -d "$root/DEBIAN"
sed "s|@VERSION@|$version|g" "$here/packaging/deb/control" > "$root/DEBIAN/control"
install -Dm644 "$here/packaging/deb/copyright" \
"$root/usr/share/doc/$name/copyright"
# Relative to the package root, and DEBIAN/ itself is not part of the contents.
# Sorted in the C locale so the file comes out the same whatever the locale of
# the machine that built it.
( cd "$root" && find . -type f ! -path './DEBIAN/*' -printf '%P\0' \
| LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums )
mkdir -p "$here/dist"
out="$here/dist/${name}_${version}_all.deb"
dpkg-deb --root-owner-group --build "$root" "$out" > /dev/null
echo "$out"
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Builds the binary package for Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE and their derivatives
# into dist/.
#
# The spec takes the version as a macro rather than carrying one of its own,
# for the same reason the Debian control file has a placeholder: the Makefile
# is where the version is written down.
#
# Needs: rpmbuild, make, msgfmt (gettext), scdoc, systemd-rpm-macros.
set -euo pipefail
here="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
version="${1:-$(make -s -C "$here" version)}"
name=middleclick-autoscroll
command -v rpmbuild > /dev/null || { echo "$0: rpmbuild is not installed" >&2; exit 1; }
top="$(mktemp -d)"
trap 'rm -rf -- "$top"' EXIT
mkdir -p "$top"/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS}
# The working tree as it is, not as it was committed: a package built from a
# checkout has to contain what is in that checkout.
tar czf "$top/SOURCES/$name-$version.tar.gz" \
--transform "s,^\\.,$name-$version," \
--exclude=./.git --exclude=./dist --exclude=./po/'*.mo' \
-C "$here" .
rpmbuild \
--define "_topdir $top" \
--define "_version $version" \
-bb "$here/packaging/rpm/$name.spec" > /dev/null
mkdir -p "$here/dist"
cp "$top"/RPMS/noarch/*.rpm "$here/dist/"
ls "$here/dist/$name-$version"*.rpm
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Refuses a release whose tag and Makefile disagree.
#
# The version is baked into the program at install time from the Makefile, and
# the packages take theirs from the same place. But the tag is what people see
# and what the release is named after. A tag that says something else produces
# a package called 1.0.4 containing a program that reports 1.0.3, and nothing
# would have complained.
#
# Anything that is not a v-tag (a run started by hand from a branch) is not a
# release and has nothing to check.
set -euo pipefail
here="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
ref="${1:-}"
case "$ref" in
v[0-9]*) ;;
*)
echo "not a release tag (${ref:-none}), nothing to check against"
exit 0
;;
esac
tag_version="${ref#v}"
make_version="$(make -s -C "$here" version)"
if [[ $tag_version != "$make_version" ]]; then
echo "tag $ref says $tag_version, the Makefile says $make_version" >&2
echo "Bump VERSION in the Makefile to match the tag, or retag." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "$ref matches the Makefile"
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Package: middleclick-autoscroll
Version: @VERSION@
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Felitendo <felitendoyt@gmail.com>
Depends: bash (>= 4.2), coreutils, findutils, grep, sed, mawk | gawk | original-awk
Recommends: gettext-base, systemd, desktop-file-utils
Homepage: https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll
Description: middle-click autoscroll for Chromium-based applications
Blink (the engine inside Chromium, Electron and CEF) has had Windows-style
autoscroll for years: hold the middle mouse button, move the pointer, the page
scrolls. On Linux it is switched off, because middle click is already taken by
primary-selection paste.
.
This turns it back on for every application on the system that can do it, and
for anything installed later. There is no list of supported applications to
keep up to date: every launcher is examined, the ones running on Chromium
underneath are identified by what they ship rather than by their name, and the
argument goes wherever that particular application will actually read it.
.
Nothing outside the user's home directory is ever written to. Run
"middleclick-autoscroll disable" before removing this package, so that
everything it changed is put back.
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Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: middleclick-autoscroll
Source: https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll
Files: *
Copyright: 2026 Felitendo
License: GPL-3+
License: GPL-3+
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
.
On Debian systems the full text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can
be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>middleclick-autoscroll</title>
<style>
:root {
--bg: #ffffff;
--fg: #1b1f23;
--muted: #57606a;
--rule: #d8dee4;
--code-bg: #f6f8fa;
--accent: #1793d1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root:not([data-theme="light"]) {
--bg: #0d1117;
--fg: #e6edf3;
--muted: #9198a1;
--rule: #30363d;
--code-bg: #161b22;
--accent: #58a6ff;
}
}
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
body {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 3rem 1.25rem 5rem;
max-width: 46rem;
background: var(--bg);
color: var(--fg);
font: 16px/1.6 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
"Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;
}
h1 { font-size: 1.6rem; margin: 0 0 .4rem; }
h2 {
font-size: 1.05rem; margin: 2.5rem 0 .6rem;
padding-bottom: .3rem; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule);
}
p.lead { color: var(--muted); margin: 0 0 2rem; }
p { margin: 0 0 1rem; }
a { color: var(--accent); }
code {
background: var(--code-bg); padding: .12em .35em;
border-radius: 4px; font-size: .9em;
}
pre {
background: var(--code-bg);
border: 1px solid var(--rule);
border-radius: 6px;
padding: .9rem 1rem;
overflow-x: auto;
}
pre code { background: none; padding: 0; font-size: .85rem; }
footer {
margin-top: 3.5rem; padding-top: 1rem;
border-top: 1px solid var(--rule);
color: var(--muted); font-size: .9rem;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>middleclick-autoscroll</h1>
<p class="lead">
Middle-click autoscroll in every Chromium-based application on the system,
and in anything installed later: hold the middle mouse button, move the
pointer, and the page scrolls.
</p>
<p>
This page is the package repository. Set it up once and every new version
arrives with the rest of your system updates. The
<a href="https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll">source and the
documentation</a> are on GitHub.
</p>
<h2>Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS</h2>
<pre><code>sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL @BASEURL@/KEY.gpg \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg] @BASEURL@/deb ./" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/middleclick-autoscroll.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install middleclick-autoscroll</code></pre>
<h2>Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Stream</h2>
<pre><code>sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
@BASEURL@/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
sudo dnf install middleclick-autoscroll</code></pre>
<h2>openSUSE</h2>
<pre><code>sudo rpm --import @BASEURL@/KEY.gpg
sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck --refresh @BASEURL@/rpm middleclick-autoscroll
sudo zypper install middleclick-autoscroll</code></pre>
<h2>Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro</h2>
<pre><code>paru -S middleclick-autoscroll</code></pre>
<h2>Then, once</h2>
<pre><code>middleclick-autoscroll enable</code></pre>
<p>
That is the whole setup. Nothing else has to be configured and no file has to
be edited. Run <code>middleclick-autoscroll disable</code> before removing the
package. It puts back everything that was changed.
</p>
<footer>
GPL-3.0-or-later. Packages are signed; the public key is
<a href="@BASEURL@/KEY.gpg">KEY.gpg</a>.
</footer>
</body>
</html>
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
[middleclick-autoscroll]
name=middleclick-autoscroll
baseurl=@BASEURL@/rpm
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=@BASEURL@/KEY.gpg
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Puts the packages that were just built into the APT and RPM repositories on
# the gh-pages branch, and regenerates the indexes over everything that is
# there.
#
# Old versions are kept rather than replaced. An index built over all of them
# is what lets somebody pin a version or go back to one, and it costs a few
# hundred kilobytes.
#
# Usage: publish-repos.sh <gh-pages checkout> <directory of new packages>
#
# Needs: dpkg-dev, apt-utils, createrepo-c, gpg, and a secret key already
# imported. Its id is taken from the keyring.
set -euo pipefail
pages="$(cd -- "$1" && pwd)"
incoming="$(cd -- "$2" && pwd)"
here="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
base_url="${MCA_REPO_URL:-https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll}"
keyid="$(gpg --list-secret-keys --with-colons | awk -F: '/^sec:/ { print $5; exit }')"
[[ -n $keyid ]] || { echo "$0: no secret key in the keyring" >&2; exit 1; }
mkdir -p "$pages/deb" "$pages/rpm"
cp -- "$incoming"/*.deb "$pages/deb/"
cp -- "$incoming"/*.rpm "$pages/rpm/"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# APT
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# A flat repository: the packages and their index sit in one directory and the
# sources line ends in "./". There is one distribution here and it is the same
# package for all of them, so the suite and component machinery of a pool
# layout would describe nothing.
(
cd "$pages/deb"
# The old index must be gone before the new one is written: apt-ftparchive
# hashes every file in the directory, and a Release that hashes the
# previous Release is a Release that cannot be verified.
rm -f Packages Packages.gz Release Release.gpg InRelease
dpkg-scanpackages --multiversion . > Packages
gzip -9kf Packages
apt-ftparchive \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin=middleclick-autoscroll \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Label=middleclick-autoscroll \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Suite=stable \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Codename=stable \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Architectures=all \
-o APT::FTPArchive::Release::Components=main \
release . > Release
# Both signatures: InRelease is what current apt fetches, Release.gpg is
# what an older one falls back to.
gpg --batch --yes --local-user "$keyid" --clearsign --output InRelease Release
gpg --batch --yes --local-user "$keyid" --detach-sign --armor --output Release.gpg Release
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# RPM
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
(
cd "$pages/rpm"
createrepo_c --quiet --update .
rm -f repodata/repomd.xml.asc
gpg --batch --yes --local-user "$keyid" --detach-sign --armor repodata/repomd.xml
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The key and the landing page
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
gpg --armor --export "$keyid" > "$pages/KEY.gpg"
sed "s|@BASEURL@|$base_url|g" "$here/packaging/pages/index.html" > "$pages/index.html"
sed "s|@BASEURL@|$base_url|g" "$here/packaging/pages/middleclick-autoscroll.repo" \
> "$pages/middleclick-autoscroll.repo"
# Pages would otherwise hand the whole directory to Jekyll, which drops every
# file whose name starts with an underscore and can rewrite the rest.
touch "$pages/.nojekyll"
echo "signed with $keyid"
ls -1 "$pages/deb" "$pages/rpm"
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# Built with `packaging/build-rpm.sh`, which passes the version in rather than
# editing this file: the Makefile is where the version is written down, and two
# places that have to agree are one place too many.
%global upstream_version %{?_version}%{!?_version:1.0.3}
Name: middleclick-autoscroll
Version: %{upstream_version}
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: Middle-click autoscroll for Chromium-based applications
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
URL: https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRequires: make
BuildRequires: gettext
BuildRequires: scdoc
# For %{_userunitdir}, which is where the watcher's user units belong.
BuildRequires: systemd-rpm-macros
Requires: bash >= 4.2
Requires: coreutils
Requires: findutils
Requires: grep
Requires: sed
Requires: gawk
# The interface falls back to English without gettext and picks up new
# applications at the next `apply` without systemd, so neither is required.
Recommends: /usr/bin/gettext
Recommends: systemd
Recommends: desktop-file-utils
%description
Blink (the engine inside Chromium, Electron and CEF) has had Windows-style
autoscroll for years: hold the middle mouse button, move the pointer, the page
scrolls. On Linux it is switched off, because middle click is already taken by
primary-selection paste.
This turns it back on for every application on the system that can do it, and
for anything installed later. There is no list of supported applications to keep
up to date: every launcher is examined, the ones running on Chromium underneath
are identified by what they ship rather than by their name, and the argument goes
wherever that particular application will actually read it.
Nothing outside the user's home directory is ever written to. Run
"middleclick-autoscroll disable" before removing this package, so that everything
it changed is put back.
%prep
%autosetup -n %{name}-%{version}
%build
%make_build VERSION=%{upstream_version}
%install
%make_install PREFIX=%{_prefix} VERSION=%{upstream_version} \
USERUNITDIR=%{_userunitdir}
%find_lang %{name}
%files -f %{name}.lang
%license LICENSE
%doc %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}/README.md
%{_bindir}/%{name}
%{_datadir}/%{name}/
%{_userunitdir}/%{name}.path
%{_userunitdir}/%{name}.service
%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1*
%changelog
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#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: middleclick-autoscroll 1.0.0\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/Felitendo/middleclick-autoscroll/issues\n"
"Project-Id-Version: middleclick-autoscroll 1.0.3\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/"
"issues\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2026-08-16 00:00+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2026-08-16 00:00+0200\n"
"Last-Translator: Felitendo\n"
@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@ msgstr "nicht erkennbar"
msgid "not patched yet"
msgstr "noch nicht gepatcht"
#. Status block
msgid "Autoscroll"
msgstr "Autoscroll"
@@ -57,12 +57,15 @@ msgstr "%d von %d"
msgid "Not identified"
msgstr "Nicht erkannt"
msgid "%d - see the applications list"
msgstr "%d – siehe Anwendungsliste"
msgid "%d (see the applications list)"
msgstr "%d (siehe Anwendungsliste)"
msgid "Steam"
msgstr "Steam"
msgid "Middle-click paste"
msgstr "Mittelklick-Einfügen"
msgid "New applications"
msgstr "Neue Anwendungen"
@@ -72,13 +75,12 @@ msgstr "Zuletzt angewendet"
msgid "Applications pick this up the next time they are started."
msgstr "Anwendungen übernehmen das beim nächsten Start."
#. Menu
msgid "Turn autoscroll on or off"
msgstr "Autoscroll ein- oder ausschalten"
msgid "Apply now"
msgstr "Jetzt anwenden"
msgid "Re-apply everything"
msgstr "Alles neu anwenden"
msgid "Applications"
msgstr "Anwendungen"
@@ -92,7 +94,6 @@ msgstr "Beenden"
msgid "Press any key to continue..."
msgstr "Beliebige Taste drücken …"
#. Settings
msgid "Electron and CEF applications"
msgstr "Electron- und CEF-Anwendungen"
@@ -103,20 +104,26 @@ msgstr "Chromium-basierte Browser"
msgid "Flatpak applications"
msgstr "Flatpak-Anwendungen"
msgid "Snap applications"
msgstr "Snap-Anwendungen"
msgid "Programs that start themselves at login"
msgstr "Programme, die sich beim Anmelden selbst starten"
msgid "Spotify"
msgstr "Spotify"
msgid "Turn off KDE's middle-click paste"
msgstr "KDEs Mittelklick-Einfügen abschalten"
msgid "Apply to newly installed applications"
msgstr "Auf neu installierte Anwendungen anwenden"
msgid "Additional Chromium arguments"
msgstr "Zusätzliche Chromium-Argumente"
msgid "Up/Down select - Space or Right changes - q goes back"
msgstr "Hoch/Runter wählt – Leertaste oder Rechts ändert – q geht zurück"
msgid "Up/Down: select, Space or Right: change, q: back"
msgstr "Hoch/Runter: wählen, Leertaste oder Rechts: ändern, q: zurück"
msgid "Arguments separated by spaces, empty for none:"
msgstr "Argumente mit Leerzeichen getrennt, leer für keine:"
@@ -124,7 +131,6 @@ msgstr "Argumente mit Leerzeichen getrennt, leer für keine:"
msgid "Could not save the setting."
msgstr "Einstellung konnte nicht gespeichert werden."
#. Applications screen
msgid "Looking at the installed applications..."
msgstr "Installierte Anwendungen werden durchgesehen …"
@@ -133,30 +139,34 @@ msgid "No Chromium-based applications found."
msgstr "Keine Chromium-basierten Anwendungen gefunden."
msgid "Anything not identified is left alone until it is turned on here."
msgstr "Nicht erkannte Anwendungen bleiben unangetastet, bis sie hier eingeschaltet werden."
msgstr ""
"Nicht erkannte Anwendungen bleiben unangetastet, bis sie hier eingeschaltet "
"werden."
msgid "Autoscroll is off - this is what would be covered."
msgstr "Autoscroll ist aus – das hier wäre abgedeckt."
msgid "Up/Down select - Space turns one on or off - q goes back"
msgstr "Hoch/Runter wählt – Leertaste schaltet einzeln ein oder aus – q geht zurück"
msgid "Autoscroll is off. This is what would be covered."
msgstr "Autoscroll ist aus. Das hier wäre abgedeckt."
msgid "Up/Down: select, Space: turn on or off, q: back"
msgstr "Hoch/Runter: wählen, Leertaste: ein- oder ausschalten, q: zurück"
#. Results
msgid "Autoscroll is on for %d applications."
msgstr "Autoscroll ist für %d Anwendungen an."
msgid "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted."
msgid ""
"Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted."
msgstr "Bereits laufende Anwendungen übernehmen das nach einem Neustart."
msgid "Steam's launcher now skips its file check, which is what keeps the change from being undone at every start."
msgstr "Steams Startereintrag überspringt jetzt die Dateiprüfung – nur so bleibt die Änderung bei jedem Start erhalten."
msgid "Could not start the watcher for newly installed applications."
msgstr "Die Überwachung neu installierter Anwendungen konnte nicht gestartet werden."
msgstr ""
"Die Überwachung neu installierter Anwendungen konnte nicht gestartet werden."
msgid "No systemd user session - newly installed applications will not be picked up on their own."
msgstr "Keine systemd-Benutzersitzung – neu installierte Anwendungen werden nicht von selbst erfasst."
msgid ""
"No systemd user session, so newly installed applications will not be picked "
"up on their own."
msgstr ""
"Keine systemd-Benutzersitzung, daher werden neu installierte Anwendungen "
"nicht von selbst erfasst."
msgid "Autoscroll is off and everything that was changed has been put back."
msgstr "Autoscroll ist aus, alle Änderungen wurden zurückgenommen."
@@ -164,15 +174,32 @@ msgstr "Autoscroll ist aus, alle Änderungen wurden zurückgenommen."
msgid "Autoscroll is off. Turn it on first."
msgstr "Autoscroll ist aus. Erst einschalten."
msgid "Applied again to %d applications."
msgstr "Erneut auf %d Anwendungen angewendet."
msgid "Applied to %d applications."
msgstr "Auf %d Anwendungen angewendet."
msgid "Already applied to %d applications."
msgstr "Bereits auf %d Anwendungen angewendet."
msgid "Steam starts its interface in a way this version does not recognise; leaving it alone."
msgstr "Steam startet seine Oberfläche auf eine Art, die diese Version nicht kennt; Steam bleibt unangetastet."
msgid ""
"Steam starts its interface in a way this version cannot change without Steam "
"noticing; leaving it alone."
msgstr ""
"Steam startet seine Oberfläche auf eine Art, die diese Version nicht ändern "
"kann, ohne dass Steam es merkt; Steam bleibt unangetastet."
msgid ""
"Steam's interface cannot be given the flag without leaving a file Steam "
"would reinstall; the change has been taken back."
msgstr ""
"Steams Oberfläche lässt sich das Flag nicht geben, ohne eine Datei zu "
"hinterlassen, die Steam neu installieren würde; die Änderung wurde "
"zurückgenommen."
msgid "Middle click stops pasting at the next login."
msgstr "Mittelklick fügt ab der nächsten Anmeldung nichts mehr ein."
#. Help
msgid "Usage: middleclick-autoscroll [command]"
@@ -190,6 +217,9 @@ msgstr "Ausschalten und alles zurücknehmen"
msgid "Apply to anything installed since the last run"
msgstr "Auf alles anwenden, was seit dem letzten Lauf dazugekommen ist"
msgid "Take everything back and apply it again"
msgstr "Alles zurücknehmen und neu anwenden"
msgid "Show what is covered"
msgstr "Anzeigen, was abgedeckt ist"
@@ -208,7 +238,6 @@ msgstr "Ohne Befehl wird ein interaktives Menü angezeigt."
msgid "Unknown command: %s"
msgstr "Unbekannter Befehl: %s"
#. Time
msgid "never"
msgstr "nie"
@@ -216,11 +245,20 @@ msgstr "nie"
msgid "just now"
msgstr "gerade eben"
msgid "1 minute ago"
msgstr "vor 1 Minute"
msgid "%d minutes ago"
msgstr "vor %d Minuten"
msgid "1 hour ago"
msgstr "vor 1 Stunde"
msgid "%d hours ago"
msgstr "vor %d Stunden"
msgid "1 day ago"
msgstr "vor 1 Tag"
msgid "%d days ago"
msgstr "vor %d Tagen"
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#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: middleclick-autoscroll 1.0.0\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/Felitendo/middleclick-autoscroll/issues\n"
"Project-Id-Version: middleclick-autoscroll 1.0.3\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/LoonixTools/middleclick-autoscroll/"
"issues\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2026-08-16 00:00+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "not patched yet"
msgstr ""
#. Status block
msgid "Autoscroll"
msgstr ""
@@ -57,12 +57,15 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Not identified"
msgstr ""
msgid "%d - see the applications list"
msgid "%d (see the applications list)"
msgstr ""
msgid "Steam"
msgstr ""
msgid "Middle-click paste"
msgstr ""
msgid "New applications"
msgstr ""
@@ -72,12 +75,11 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Applications pick this up the next time they are started."
msgstr ""
#. Menu
msgid "Turn autoscroll on or off"
msgstr ""
msgid "Apply now"
msgid "Re-apply everything"
msgstr ""
msgid "Applications"
@@ -92,7 +94,6 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Press any key to continue..."
msgstr ""
#. Settings
msgid "Electron and CEF applications"
msgstr ""
@@ -103,19 +104,25 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Flatpak applications"
msgstr ""
msgid "Snap applications"
msgstr ""
msgid "Programs that start themselves at login"
msgstr ""
msgid "Spotify"
msgstr ""
msgid "Turn off KDE's middle-click paste"
msgstr ""
msgid "Apply to newly installed applications"
msgstr ""
msgid "Additional Chromium arguments"
msgstr ""
msgid "Up/Down select - Space or Right changes - q goes back"
msgid "Up/Down: select, Space or Right: change, q: back"
msgstr ""
msgid "Arguments separated by spaces, empty for none:"
@@ -124,7 +131,6 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Could not save the setting."
msgstr ""
#. Applications screen
msgid "Looking at the installed applications..."
msgstr ""
@@ -135,27 +141,26 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Anything not identified is left alone until it is turned on here."
msgstr ""
msgid "Autoscroll is off - this is what would be covered."
msgid "Autoscroll is off. This is what would be covered."
msgstr ""
msgid "Up/Down select - Space turns one on or off - q goes back"
msgid "Up/Down: select, Space: turn on or off, q: back"
msgstr ""
#. Results
msgid "Autoscroll is on for %d applications."
msgstr ""
msgid "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted."
msgstr ""
msgid "Steam's launcher now skips its file check, which is what keeps the change from being undone at every start."
msgid ""
"Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted."
msgstr ""
msgid "Could not start the watcher for newly installed applications."
msgstr ""
msgid "No systemd user session - newly installed applications will not be picked up on their own."
msgid ""
"No systemd user session, so newly installed applications will not be picked "
"up on their own."
msgstr ""
msgid "Autoscroll is off and everything that was changed has been put back."
@@ -164,15 +169,27 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Autoscroll is off. Turn it on first."
msgstr ""
msgid "Applied again to %d applications."
msgstr ""
msgid "Applied to %d applications."
msgstr ""
msgid "Already applied to %d applications."
msgstr ""
msgid "Steam starts its interface in a way this version does not recognise; leaving it alone."
msgid ""
"Steam starts its interface in a way this version cannot change without Steam "
"noticing; leaving it alone."
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"Steam's interface cannot be given the flag without leaving a file Steam "
"would reinstall; the change has been taken back."
msgstr ""
msgid "Middle click stops pasting at the next login."
msgstr ""
#. Help
msgid "Usage: middleclick-autoscroll [command]"
@@ -190,6 +207,9 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Apply to anything installed since the last run"
msgstr ""
msgid "Take everything back and apply it again"
msgstr ""
msgid "Show what is covered"
msgstr ""
@@ -208,7 +228,6 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "Unknown command: %s"
msgstr ""
#. Time
msgid "never"
msgstr ""
@@ -216,11 +235,20 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "just now"
msgstr ""
msgid "1 minute ago"
msgstr ""
msgid "%d minutes ago"
msgstr ""
msgid "1 hour ago"
msgstr ""
msgid "%d hours ago"
msgstr ""
msgid "1 day ago"
msgstr ""
msgid "%d days ago"
msgstr ""
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@@ -3,21 +3,39 @@ Description=Watch for newly installed Chromium-based applications
Documentation=man:middleclick-autoscroll(1)
[Path]
# Every way an application can turn up: a package, a Flatpak, something
# Every way an application can turn up: a package, a Flatpak, a snap, something
# installed by hand. Watching where the launchers land means there is no hook
# to write per package manager - pacman, flatpak and an AppImage manager all
# end up here.
# to write per package manager: pacman, apt, dnf, zypper, flatpak, snapd and
# an AppImage manager all end up here.
#
# A directory that does not exist on this system costs nothing: systemd watches
# the nearest parent that does and picks the path up when it appears.
PathModified=/usr/share/applications
PathModified=/usr/local/share/applications
PathModified=%h/.local/share/applications
PathModified=%h/.config/autostart
PathModified=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications
PathModified=%h/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications
PathModified=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
# NixOS and Guix build the search path out of profiles rather than /usr.
PathModified=/run/current-system/sw/share/applications
PathModified=%h/.nix-profile/share/applications
PathModified=%h/.guix-profile/share/applications
# The desktop folder is watched too. Steam writes a shortcut there for every
# game somebody asks for one, and starting a game is a Steam start. But the
# folder's name is translated and cannot be written down here. `enable` adds it
# in a drop-in, from the name this system uses.
# Steam replaces the script that starts its interface on every client update,
# which takes the patch with it.
# which takes the patch with it. Where that installation lives depends on how
# Steam was installed.
PathChanged=%h/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
PathChanged=%h/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
PathChanged=%h/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
PathChanged=%h/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
PathChanged=%h/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
Unit=middleclick-autoscroll.service
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@@ -4,14 +4,13 @@
#
# The routing lives in mca_route and is used twice: once by mca_apply to patch
# and once by the applications screen to show what would happen. Keeping it in
# one function is what makes that screen trustworthy - it is not a description
# one function is what makes that screen trustworthy: it is not a description
# of the behaviour, it is the behaviour.
MCA_CHANGES=0
MCA_TOUCHED=()
MCA_ROUTES=()
# mca_route <kind> <id> <program>
# mca_route <kind> <id> <program> [packaging]
# What happens to one application, left in MCA_ROUTE:
# flags - the launcher reads a flag file; write it there
# desktop - no flag file; shadow or edit the desktop entry
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ MCA_ROUTES=()
MCA_ROUTE=''
mca_route() {
local kind="$1" id="$2" prog="$3"
local kind="$1" id="$2" prog="$3" packaging="${4:-native}"
if [[ $kind == steam ]]; then
if mca_config_list_has Skip "$id" || [[ $CFG_STEAM != yes ]]; then
@@ -36,14 +35,14 @@ mca_route() {
return
fi
if ! mca_kind_wanted "$kind" "$id"; then
if ! mca_kind_wanted "$kind" "$id" "$packaging"; then
[[ $kind == unknown ]] && MCA_ROUTE=unknown || MCA_ROUTE=off
return
fi
# A Flatpak has its own copy of everything and none of the host's wrappers,
# so the desktop entry is the only way in.
if [[ $kind == flatpak ]]; then
# A Flatpak or a snap carries its own copy of everything and sees none of
# the host's wrappers, so the desktop entry is the only way in.
if [[ $packaging != native ]]; then
MCA_ROUTE=desktop
return
fi
@@ -57,17 +56,25 @@ mca_route() {
# mca_apply
# Brings everything into line with the current settings. Safe to run as often
# as it likes to be - it writes only what differs, which is what keeps the
# as it likes to be. It writes only what differs, which is what keeps the
# watcher from chasing its own changes.
mca_apply() {
local i id file prog kind route steam_done=0
local i id file prog kind packaging route steam_done=0
MCA_CHANGES=0
MCA_TOUCHED=()
MCA_ROUTES=()
MCA_N_ON=0; MCA_N_OFF=0; MCA_N_UNKNOWN=0
mca_config_load
# An installation that was set up by a version whose answer was a different
# flag still has that flag where it put it, and nothing below would touch it
# again: a file that is already marked as patched is left alone. Taking
# everything back once, here, is what carries such an installation over.
if [[ "$(mca_state_read flag_scheme 1)" != "$MCA_FLAG_SCHEME" ]]; then
mca_revert_all
fi
mca_scan
for i in "${!MCA_IDS[@]}"; do
@@ -75,8 +82,9 @@ mca_apply() {
file="${MCA_FILES[i]}"
prog="${MCA_PROGS[i]}"
kind="${MCA_KINDS[i]}"
packaging="${MCA_PACKAGING[i]}"
mca_route "$kind" "$id" "$prog"
mca_route "$kind" "$id" "$prog" "$packaging"
route="$MCA_ROUTE"
MCA_ROUTES[i]="$route"
@@ -88,13 +96,16 @@ mca_apply() {
case "$route" in
flags)
mca_flags_apply "$prog" || mca_desktop_apply "$id" "$file"
mca_flags_apply "$prog" "$kind" \
|| mca_desktop_apply "$id" "$file" "$(mca_flags "$kind")"
;;
desktop)
mca_desktop_apply "$id" "$file"
mca_desktop_apply "$id" "$file" "$(mca_flags "$kind")"
;;
steam)
mca_steam_desktop_apply "$id" "$file"
# Nothing is done to the entry itself: what Steam needs is
# in its own installation, and the same patch serves every
# way of starting the client.
if (( ! steam_done )); then
mca_steam_apply
steam_done=1
@@ -103,21 +114,39 @@ mca_apply() {
esac
done
# Steam is worth patching even when its desktop entry is missing - a user
# Steam is worth patching even when its desktop entry is missing. A user
# who starts it from a script or a game launcher still gets the interface.
if [[ $CFG_STEAM == yes ]] && (( ! steam_done )) && mca_steam_installed; then
mca_steam_apply
fi
[[ $CFG_AUTOSTART == yes ]] && mca_autostart_apply
# Autostart entries. A Chromium application that starts itself at login
# points straight at its binary and never reads the entry in the menu, so
# Discord at login used to behave differently from Discord from the menu.
if [[ $CFG_AUTOSTART == yes ]]; then
mca_autostart_apply
fi
# Shortcuts on the desktop itself, which nothing above has seen: the XDG
# search path does not go there. Each entry is gated on its own, so there is
# nothing to check out here.
mca_shortcuts_apply
[[ $CFG_SPOTIFY == yes ]] && mca_spotify_apply
# Not about any one application: middle click goes on pasting everywhere
# else on the desktop, and KDE is the one desktop that can be told not to.
# See kde.sh.
[[ $CFG_PASTE == yes ]] && mca_kde_paste_apply
mca_prune_orphans
if (( MCA_CHANGES )) && mca_have update-desktop-database; then
update-desktop-database "$MCA_APPDIR" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
mca_state_write last_apply "$(date +%s)"
mca_state_write covered "${#MCA_TOUCHED[@]}"
mca_state_write flag_scheme "$MCA_FLAG_SCHEME"
return 0
}
@@ -131,7 +160,6 @@ mca_revert() {
update-desktop-database "$MCA_APPDIR" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
mca_state_write covered 0
return 0
}
@@ -139,13 +167,19 @@ mca_revert() {
# The watcher
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# A systemd user path unit watching every directory a desktop entry can appear
# in. That covers a package installed with pacman, a Flatpak, an AppImage
# registered by hand and a Steam client update, without a hook per package
# manager.
# in. That covers a package from whatever the distribution's package manager
# is, a Flatpak, a snap, an AppImage registered by hand and a Steam client
# update, without a hook per package manager.
MCA_UNIT_PATH="middleclick-autoscroll.path"
MCA_UNIT_SERVICE="middleclick-autoscroll.service"
# The desktop folder is watched like every other directory an entry can turn up
# in, but its name is translated and the unit that ships with the package
# cannot know it. So that one path is written here, into a drop-in, from the
# name this system actually uses.
MCA_UNIT_DROPIN="${MCA_XDG_CONFIG}/systemd/user/${MCA_UNIT_PATH}.d"
mca_watch_available() {
mca_have systemctl && [[ -n ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-} || -S "/run/user/$(id -u)/bus" ]]
}
@@ -155,17 +189,56 @@ mca_watch_enabled() {
systemctl --user is-enabled --quiet "$MCA_UNIT_PATH" 2>/dev/null
}
# _mca_watch_dropin_write
# Returns 0 when the drop-in changed and systemd has to be told, 1 when it was
# already right. That is the same contract as mca_write_if_changed, for the
# same reason: the watcher runs after every desktop entry that appears anywhere on
# the system, and a daemon-reload each time would be absurd.
_mca_watch_dropin_write() {
local dir file="$MCA_UNIT_DROPIN/desktop.conf" content
dir="$(mca_desktop_folder)"
[[ -d $dir ]] || { _mca_watch_dropin_remove; return $?; }
# A per cent sign starts a specifier in a unit file and has to be doubled
# to mean itself. Rare in a folder name, fatal when it happens.
content="[Path]"$'\n'"PathModified=${dir//%/%%}"$'\n'
mca_write_if_changed "$file" "$content"
}
_mca_watch_dropin_remove() {
[[ -e "$MCA_UNIT_DROPIN/desktop.conf" ]] || return 1
rm -f -- "$MCA_UNIT_DROPIN/desktop.conf"
rmdir "$MCA_UNIT_DROPIN" 2>/dev/null || true
return 0
}
mca_watch_enable() {
mca_watch_available || return 1
_mca_watch_dropin_write
systemctl --user daemon-reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl --user enable --now "$MCA_UNIT_PATH" > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
systemctl --user enable "$MCA_UNIT_SERVICE" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
return 0
}
# mca_watch_refresh
# Keeps a running watcher in step with a desktop folder that has been renamed,
# which is what a change of session language does to it.
mca_watch_refresh() {
mca_watch_available || return 0
_mca_watch_dropin_write || return 0
systemctl --user daemon-reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl --user restart "$MCA_UNIT_PATH" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
return 0
}
mca_watch_disable() {
mca_watch_available || return 0
systemctl --user disable --now "$MCA_UNIT_PATH" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl --user disable "$MCA_UNIT_SERVICE" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
_mca_watch_dropin_remove && systemctl --user daemon-reload > /dev/null 2>&1
return 0
}
@@ -187,7 +260,8 @@ mca_count_routes() {
MCA_ROUTES=()
for i in "${!MCA_IDS[@]}"; do
mca_route "${MCA_KINDS[i]}" "${MCA_IDS[i]}" "${MCA_PROGS[i]}"
mca_route "${MCA_KINDS[i]}" "${MCA_IDS[i]}" "${MCA_PROGS[i]}" \
"${MCA_PACKAGING[i]}"
route="$MCA_ROUTE"
MCA_ROUTES[i]="$route"
case "$route" in
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# Paths, translations, output helpers and the change ledger.
#
# Everything here runs unprivileged. This tool only ever writes inside the
# user's own home - flag files, desktop entries, Steam's own scripts - so there
# user's own home (flag files, desktop entries, Steam's own scripts), so there
# is no system state to guard and nothing that needs root.
MCA_VERSION="@VERSION@"
@@ -13,11 +13,53 @@ MCA_PRETTY="Middle-Click Autoscroll"
# The whole point of the package. Blink implements Windows-style autoscroll
# behind a runtime flag that Chromium does not turn on for Linux, because
# middle click is taken by primary-selection paste there.
#
# There are two ways to ask for that flag, and which one is right depends on
# what is being started:
#
# --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll is the one that works
# everywhere, and the only one that works in the Chromium versions embedded
# applications ship: Steam's CEF, an Electron a few years old, anything
# before Chromium 124. A browser started with it puts a yellow bar above the
# page saying an unsupported command line flag is in use, because Chromium
# keeps a list of flags worth warning about and this is on it.
#
# --enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll is not on that list, so a browser
# started with it says nothing. Blink generates a feature of the same name
# for every one of its runtime flags, which is what makes the two the same
# request. But only since Chromium 124. Before that the name means nothing
# and is ignored without a word.
#
# So a browser, which is the only thing that shows the bar and the one thing
# that keeps itself up to date, is given the quiet one; everything else keeps
# the one that always works.
MCA_FLAG="--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll"
# The Blink feature name on its own, for merging into an --enable-blink-features
# list that an app (or the user) already carries.
# Two browsers do not answer to the Chromium name. Helium ships the feature
# under its own name and sets the runtime flag from that alone. Brave takes
# the generated feature away and switches the flag on from one of its own,
# spelled MiddelButtonClickAutoscroll. The typo is in Brave's source, and the
# correct spelling does nothing. So browsers are asked for all three. A name a
# browser does not know is ignored, which is what makes one list safe to hand
# to all of them.
MCA_BROWSER_FLAG="--enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll,HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll,MiddelButtonClickAutoscroll"
# The feature names on their own, for merging into a list that an application
# (or the user) already carries, and for taking them back out again.
MCA_FEATURE="MiddleClickAutoscroll"
MCA_BROWSER_FEATURES="MiddleClickAutoscroll,HeliumMiddleClickAutoscroll,MiddelButtonClickAutoscroll"
# Bumped when the flags above change, and when what gets written where does.
# An installation that was set up by a version with a different answer is taken
# back and done again once, because a file that is already patched is otherwise
# left alone. See mca_apply.
#
# 3 is what takes -noverifyfiles back out of the Steam entries an older version
# put it in.
#
# 4 adds Brave's name to the browser list, which an entry edited in place would
# otherwise never get.
MCA_FLAG_SCHEME=4
MCA_LIBDIR="${MCA_LIBDIR:-@LIBDIR@}"
MCA_LOCALEDIR="${MCA_LOCALEDIR:-@LOCALEDIR@}"
@@ -34,7 +76,7 @@ MCA_CACHEDIR="${MCA_CACHEDIR:-${MCA_XDG_CACHE}/${MCA_NAME}}"
# Where generated desktop entries go. A file here shadows the one with the same
# name in /usr/share/applications, which is how an application gets extra
# command line arguments without touching anything pacman owns.
# command line arguments without touching a file the package manager owns.
MCA_APPDIR="${MCA_XDG_DATA}/applications"
# Copies of every file that is edited in place rather than shadowed.
@@ -44,6 +86,29 @@ MCA_BACKUPDIR="${MCA_STATEDIR}/backup"
# else. See mca_ledger_add.
MCA_LEDGER="${MCA_STATEDIR}/ledger"
# The folder the desktop itself shows. Nothing in the XDG search path looks at
# it, so an entry that lives only there is invisible to a scan. A game
# shortcut dragged onto the desktop is exactly that.
#
# Its name is translated: Schreibtisch, Bureau, Escritorio. The name in use is
# in the file xdg-user-dirs writes, so it is read rather than guessed, and
# ~/Desktop is only the fallback for a system that has no such file.
mca_desktop_folder() {
local file="$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/user-dirs.dirs" line dir=''
if [[ -r $file ]]; then
while IFS= read -r line; do
[[ $line == XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=* ]] || continue
dir="${line#XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=}"
dir="${dir%\"}"; dir="${dir#\"}"
done < "$file"
dir="${dir/#\$HOME/$HOME}"
fi
[[ $dir == /* ]] || dir="$HOME/Desktop"
printf '%s\n' "${dir%/}"
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Translations
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -60,8 +125,15 @@ mca_ui_locale() {
[[ -z $l ]] && l="${LANG:-}"
fi
if [[ -z $l && -r /etc/locale.conf ]]; then
l="$(sed -n 's/^LANG=//p' /etc/locale.conf | tr -d '"' | head -n1)"
# systemd writes /etc/locale.conf and most distributions use it; Debian and
# Ubuntu keep the same LANG= line in /etc/default/locale instead.
if [[ -z $l ]]; then
local f
for f in /etc/locale.conf /etc/default/locale; do
[[ -r $f ]] || continue
l="$(sed -n 's/^LANG=//p' "$f" | tr -d '"' | head -n1)"
[[ -n $l ]] && break
done
fi
printf '%s\n' "${l:-C}"
@@ -145,8 +217,8 @@ fi
# Set by mca_bad and mca_note. The menu redraws straight after an action, which
# would wipe the screen; this marks that something was printed the user still
# has to read. A plain success needs no acknowledgement - the status block at
# the top of the menu already shows the new state.
# has to read. A plain success needs no acknowledgement, because the status
# block at the top of the menu already shows the new state.
MCA_UI_NEEDS_ACK=''
# --quiet silences progress chatter; errors still go to stderr. Used by the
@@ -158,7 +230,6 @@ mca_head() { printf '\n%s%s%s\n\n' "$MCA_C_BOLD$MCA_C_BLUE" "$*" "$MCA_C_RESET";
mca_ok() { [[ -n $MCA_QUIET ]] || printf '%s✔%s %s\n' "$MCA_C_GREEN" "$MCA_C_RESET" "$*"; }
mca_bad() { MCA_UI_NEEDS_ACK=1; printf '%s✘%s %s\n' "$MCA_C_RED" "$MCA_C_RESET" "$*" >&2; }
mca_note() { MCA_UI_NEEDS_ACK=1; [[ -n $MCA_QUIET ]] || printf '%s•%s %s\n' "$MCA_C_DIM" "$MCA_C_RESET" "$*"; }
mca_debug() { [[ -n ${MCA_DEBUG:-} ]] && printf 'debug: %s\n' "$*" >&2; return 0; }
mca_have() { command -v "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1; }
@@ -174,8 +245,11 @@ mca_time_ago() {
(( delta < 0 )) && delta=0
if (( delta < 60 )); then mca_msg "just now"
elif (( delta < 120 )); then mca_msg "1 minute ago"
elif (( delta < 3600 )); then mca_msg "%d minutes ago" "$(( delta / 60 ))"
elif (( delta < 7200 )); then mca_msg "1 hour ago"
elif (( delta < 86400 )); then mca_msg "%d hours ago" "$(( delta / 3600 ))"
elif (( delta < 172800 )); then mca_msg "1 day ago"
else mca_msg "%d days ago" "$(( delta / 86400 ))"
fi
printf '\n'
@@ -204,7 +278,7 @@ mca_state_write() {
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The change ledger
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Reverting by pattern - "delete every desktop entry that mentions the flag" -
# Reverting by pattern ("delete every desktop entry that mentions the flag")
# would also delete entries the user wrote by hand. So every change is recorded
# instead, and `revert` replays the ledger backwards.
#
@@ -214,9 +288,12 @@ mca_state_write() {
# shadow <generated desktop entry> <source entry it was generated from>
# inplace <edited file> <basename of its backup copy>
# flags <flag file> created | appended | merged
# kwin <kwinrc> what EnablePrimarySelection said before
#
# `inplace` and `flags` differ in how they are undone: a backup is restored
# wholesale, a flag file only loses the one line that was added to it.
# The kinds differ in how they are undone: a backup is restored wholesale, a
# flag file only loses the one line that was added to it, and kwinrc gets one
# key written back. It is a file KDE writes to itself, and putting a whole
# copy of it back would take everything else settled since with it.
mca_ledger_add() {
local kind="$1" path="$2" detail="${3:-}"
@@ -229,6 +306,25 @@ mca_ledger_add() {
printf '%s\t%s\t%s\n' "$kind" "$path" "$detail" >> "$MCA_LEDGER"
}
# mca_ledger_has <path>
# Whether the ledger still knows about that file. Worth asking because the copy
# kept beside it is named after the path and outlives a ledger that was lost or
# truncated: a file nothing has a record of any more is one nothing would ever
# look at again.
mca_ledger_has() {
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 1
awk -F'\t' -v p="$1" '$2 == p { found = 1 } END { exit !found }' "$MCA_LEDGER"
}
# mca_ledger_detail <path>
# The third column of that file's line, empty when the ledger has none. What it
# means is the kind's business; for `kwin` it is the value to put back.
mca_ledger_detail() {
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 1
awk -F'\t' -v p="$1" '$2 == p { d = $3 } END { if (!length(d)) exit 1; print d }' \
"$MCA_LEDGER"
}
mca_ledger_forget() {
local path="$1" tmp
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 0
@@ -239,21 +335,13 @@ mca_ledger_forget() {
return 0
}
# mca_ledger_has <path>
mca_ledger_has() {
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 1
awk -F'\t' -v p="$1" '$2 == p { found = 1 } END { exit !found }' "$MCA_LEDGER"
}
# mca_ledger_detail <path>
mca_ledger_detail() {
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 1
awk -F'\t' -v p="$1" '$2 == p { print $3; exit }' "$MCA_LEDGER"
}
mca_ledger_count() {
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || { printf '0\n'; return; }
grep -c . "$MCA_LEDGER" 2>/dev/null || printf '0\n'
# mca_backup_name <file>
# The name a backup copy of that file is stored under. Derived from the path
# rather than remembered, so a caller can ask whether a file has been backed up
# before without reading the ledger.
mca_backup_name() {
printf '%s' "$1" | sed 's|/|%|g'
}
# mca_backup <file>
@@ -263,7 +351,7 @@ mca_ledger_count() {
# patched version.
mca_backup() {
local file="$1" name
name="$(printf '%s' "$file" | sed 's|/|%|g')"
name="$(mca_backup_name "$file")"
mkdir -p "$MCA_BACKUPDIR" 2>/dev/null || return 1
if [[ ! -e "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$name" ]]; then
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@@ -139,10 +139,12 @@ mca_config_load() {
CFG_APPS=no; mca_config_bool PatchApps yes && CFG_APPS=yes
CFG_BROWSERS=no; mca_config_bool PatchBrowsers yes && CFG_BROWSERS=yes
CFG_FLATPAK=no; mca_config_bool PatchFlatpak yes && CFG_FLATPAK=yes
CFG_SNAP=no; mca_config_bool PatchSnap yes && CFG_SNAP=yes
CFG_AUTOSTART=no; mca_config_bool PatchAutostart yes && CFG_AUTOSTART=yes
CFG_STEAM=no; mca_config_bool PatchSteam yes && CFG_STEAM=yes
CFG_SPOTIFY=no; mca_config_bool PatchSpotify yes && CFG_SPOTIFY=yes
CFG_WATCH=no; mca_config_bool WatchNewApps yes && CFG_WATCH=yes
CFG_PASTE=no; mca_config_bool DisablePaste yes && CFG_PASTE=yes
CFG_EXTRA_FLAGS="$(mca_config_get ExtraFlags '')"
@@ -153,10 +155,18 @@ mca_config_load() {
CFG_SKIP="$(mca_config_get Skip '')"
}
# mca_flags [kind]
# The full argument string that gets injected. Kept in one place so the flag
# file writer and the desktop entry writer cannot drift apart.
#
# A browser gets the flag that leaves it without a warning bar; everything else
# gets the one that works in every Chromium there is. See MCA_FLAG.
mca_flags() {
if [[ ${1:-app} == browser ]]; then
printf '%s' "$MCA_BROWSER_FLAG"
else
printf '%s' "$MCA_FLAG"
fi
[[ -n ${CFG_EXTRA_FLAGS:-} ]] && printf ' %s' "$CFG_EXTRA_FLAGS"
printf '\n'
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
# shellcheck shell=bash
#
# KDE's middle-click paste.
#
# Inside a Chromium application the flag settles this on its own: with
# autoscroll on, Blink stops pasting the primary selection on middle click,
# because the button is doing something else now. Everywhere else on the
# desktop middle click goes on pasting, which is the behaviour this whole
# program exists to get away from. So the desktop's own switch for it is
# turned off too.
#
# KWin has such a switch, and only for a Wayland session, where the paste is a
# protocol the compositor either offers or does not:
#
# ~/.config/kwinrc, [Wayland], EnablePrimarySelection=false
#
# On X11 there is nothing to switch. The primary selection is part of X itself
# and every toolkit reaches for it on its own; no one place can say no.
#
# KWin reads the key once, while it starts, so what is written here is true
# from the next login on rather than straight away.
MCA_KWINRC="${MCA_XDG_CONFIG}/kwinrc"
MCA_KWIN_GROUP="Wayland"
MCA_KWIN_KEY="EnablePrimarySelection"
# The kconfig command line tools, whichever generation this session has. They
# are what System Settings writes kwinrc with, and worth the fork: the file has
# a cascade behind it (/etc/xdg, the kdedefaults directory) and entries a
# distribution can mark immutable, and an edit that reaches past all that with
# sed writes something KDE goes on to ignore.
MCA_KDE_TOOL=''
MCA_KDE_TOOL_LOOKED=0
_mca_kde_tool() {
local gen
if (( ! MCA_KDE_TOOL_LOOKED )); then
MCA_KDE_TOOL_LOOKED=1
for gen in 6 5; do
if mca_have "kreadconfig$gen" && mca_have "kwriteconfig$gen"; then
MCA_KDE_TOOL="$gen"
break
fi
done
fi
[[ -n $MCA_KDE_TOOL ]] || return 1
printf '%s\n' "$MCA_KDE_TOOL"
}
# mca_kde_session
# Whether this is a KWin Wayland session.
mca_kde_session() {
local desktop="${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP:-}"
# The watcher is a systemd service, and one started before the session
# imported its environment sees none of these variables. A running
# kwin_wayland answers both halves of the question at once, and is what
# such a run ends up going by.
if [[ -z $desktop && -z ${KDE_FULL_SESSION:-} ]]; then
mca_have pgrep || return 1
pgrep -u "$(id -u)" -x kwin_wayland > /dev/null 2>&1
return
fi
# XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is the one every desktop sets, and the one to go by
# wherever it is set; KDE_FULL_SESSION is what answers when it is not.
[[ -z $desktop || ${desktop^^} == *KDE* ]] || return 1
[[ ${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-} == wayland || -n ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-} ]]
}
mca_kde_available() {
mca_kde_session && _mca_kde_tool > /dev/null
}
# mca_kde_read [file]
# What the key says now, lowercased, empty when it is not set at all.
mca_kde_read() {
local file="${1:-$MCA_KWINRC}" gen val
gen="$(_mca_kde_tool)" || return 1
# kreadconfig creates the file it is pointed at, and the status screen
# (which asks on every redraw) has no business writing anything. A file
# that is not there has no value in it to read anyway.
[[ -f $file ]] || return 0
val="$("kreadconfig$gen" --file "$file" --group "$MCA_KWIN_GROUP" \
--key "$MCA_KWIN_KEY" 2>/dev/null)"
printf '%s\n' "${val,,}"
}
# mca_kde_write [file] <value>
# An empty value takes the key back out rather than writing nothing into it -
# a key that is missing and a key that says nothing are not the same thing to
# KDE, and only the first one is what an untouched kwinrc looks like.
mca_kde_write() {
local file="$1" value="$2" gen
gen="$(_mca_kde_tool)" || return 1
if [[ -z $value ]]; then
"kwriteconfig$gen" --file "$file" --group "$MCA_KWIN_GROUP" \
--key "$MCA_KWIN_KEY" --delete 2>/dev/null
else
"kwriteconfig$gen" --file "$file" --group "$MCA_KWIN_GROUP" \
--key "$MCA_KWIN_KEY" "$value" 2>/dev/null
fi
}
# mca_kde_paste_apply
# Turns the paste off, and remembers what the key said before so that undoing
# puts that back rather than a guess.
#
# A key that already says false without the ledger knowing about it was set by
# the user or by the distribution. That one is left alone and nothing is
# recorded, so `disable` cannot switch a paste back on that this program never
# switched off.
mca_kde_paste_apply() {
local current previous changed=0
mca_kde_available || return 1
current="$(mca_kde_read)" || return 1
if mca_ledger_has "$MCA_KWINRC"; then
# Ours already. What goes back is the value recorded the first time
# round, not what reading the file now would say. That is false, and
# false is what is being undone.
previous="$(mca_ledger_detail "$MCA_KWINRC")" || previous=unset
elif [[ $current == false ]]; then
return 0
else
previous="${current:-unset}"
fi
if [[ $current != false ]]; then
mca_kde_write "$MCA_KWINRC" false || return 1
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
changed=1
fi
mca_ledger_add kwin "$MCA_KWINRC" "$previous"
(( changed )) && mca_note "$(mca_msg "Middle click stops pasting at the next login.")"
return 0
}
# mca_kde_paste_revert <file> <previous value>
mca_kde_paste_revert() {
local file="$1" previous="$2"
_mca_kde_tool > /dev/null || return 1
[[ -f $file ]] || return 1
# Only what is still recognisably ours. A key somebody has since put a
# value of their own into is theirs now.
[[ "$(mca_kde_read "$file")" == false ]] || return 1
[[ $previous == unset ]] && previous=''
mca_kde_write "$file" "$previous" || return 1
# Nothing was in the file but the key, which means there was no file before
# this program wrote one. An empty kwinrc says nothing that its absence
# does not say better.
[[ -s $file ]] || rm -f -- "$file"
return 0
}
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ mca_ui_term_restore() {
}
# Runs an action with the terminal handed back to normal line mode, so anything
# it prints - or prompts for - behaves the way a program expects.
# it prints or prompts for behaves the way a program expects.
mca_ui_cooked() {
mca_ui_term_restore
"$@"
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ mca_pause() {
# _mca_row <label> <value>
# printf's %-28s pads by bytes, so a label containing "ü" comes out one column
# short. ${#s} counts characters in a UTF-8 locale, so the padding is computed
# here instead - and applied inline, because command substitution would eat the
# trailing spaces again.
# here instead. It is applied inline, because command substitution would eat
# the trailing spaces again.
_mca_row() {
local label="$1" value="$2" pad
pad=$(( 30 - ${#label} ))
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ mca_ui_status() {
if (( MCA_N_UNKNOWN )); then
_mca_row "$(mca_msg "Not identified")" \
"${MCA_C_DIM}$(mca_msg "%d - see the applications list" "$MCA_N_UNKNOWN")${MCA_C_RESET}"
"${MCA_C_DIM}$(mca_msg "%d (see the applications list)" "$MCA_N_UNKNOWN")${MCA_C_RESET}"
fi
if mca_steam_installed; then
@@ -194,6 +194,18 @@ mca_ui_status() {
fi
fi
# Not an ON/OFF like the rows around it: what is being reported is the state
# of the paste, not of a switch, and off is the state this program is after.
if mca_kde_available; then
if [[ "$(mca_kde_read)" == false ]]; then
_mca_row "$(mca_msg "Middle-click paste")" \
"${MCA_C_GREEN}$(mca_msg "off")${MCA_C_RESET}"
else
_mca_row "$(mca_msg "Middle-click paste")" \
"${MCA_C_DIM}$(mca_msg "on")${MCA_C_RESET}"
fi
fi
_mca_row "$(mca_msg "Last applied")" "$(mca_time_ago "$last")"
if [[ $CFG_ENABLED == yes ]]; then
@@ -212,9 +224,11 @@ MCA_SETTINGS=(
"PatchApps|bool|yes|Electron and CEF applications"
"PatchBrowsers|bool|yes|Chromium-based browsers"
"PatchFlatpak|bool|yes|Flatpak applications"
"PatchSnap|bool|yes|Snap applications"
"PatchAutostart|bool|yes|Programs that start themselves at login"
"PatchSteam|bool|yes|Steam"
"PatchSpotify|bool|yes|Spotify"
"DisablePaste|bool|yes|Turn off KDE's middle-click paste"
"WatchNewApps|bool|yes|Apply to newly installed applications"
"ExtraFlags|text||Additional Chromium arguments"
)
@@ -280,7 +294,7 @@ mca_ui_settings() {
local title hint
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Settings"; title="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Up/Down select - Space or Right changes - q goes back"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Up/Down: select, Space or Right: change, q: back"
hint="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
local clearseq
@@ -371,12 +385,32 @@ mca_ui_apps() {
locale="$(mca_ui_locale)"
local title hint legend
local title hint legend warn
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Applications"; title="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Up/Down select - Space turns one on or off - q goes back"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Up/Down: select, Space: turn on or off, q: back"
hint="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Anything not identified is left alone until it is turned on here."
legend="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Autoscroll is off. This is what would be covered."
warn="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
# The per-row labels are resolved once, here. Looking them up inside the
# drawing loop is a fork per row per keypress, and that is enough to make
# the arrow keys feel like the screen is reloading.
local l_off l_cannot l_on l_steam l_flagfile l_launcher
mca_msg_into "$locale" "off"; l_off="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "cannot tell"; l_cannot="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "on"; l_on="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "Steam"; l_steam="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "flag file"; l_flagfile="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
mca_msg_into "$locale" "launcher"; l_launcher="$MCA_MSG_RESULT"
local s_off="${MCA_C_DIM}${l_off}${MCA_C_RESET}"
local s_cannot="${MCA_C_DIM}${l_cannot}${MCA_C_RESET}"
local s_on="${MCA_C_GREEN}${l_on}${MCA_C_RESET}"
local s_steam="${s_on} ${MCA_C_DIM}(${l_steam})${MCA_C_RESET}"
local s_flags="${s_on} ${MCA_C_DIM}(${l_flagfile})${MCA_C_RESET}"
local s_desktop="${s_on} ${MCA_C_DIM}(${l_launcher})${MCA_C_RESET}"
local clearseq
clearseq="$(clear 2>/dev/null)" || clearseq=$'\033[H\033[2J'
@@ -409,11 +443,11 @@ mca_ui_apps() {
local marker selected="${MCA_C_BLUE}▸${MCA_C_RESET} " shown
for i in "${!labels[@]}"; do
case "${states[i]}" in
off) shown="${MCA_C_DIM}$(mca_msg "off")${MCA_C_RESET}" ;;
unknown) shown="${MCA_C_DIM}$(mca_msg "cannot tell")${MCA_C_RESET}" ;;
steam) shown="${MCA_C_GREEN}$(mca_msg "on")${MCA_C_RESET} ${MCA_C_DIM}($(mca_msg "Steam"))${MCA_C_RESET}" ;;
flags) shown="${MCA_C_GREEN}$(mca_msg "on")${MCA_C_RESET} ${MCA_C_DIM}($(mca_msg "flag file"))${MCA_C_RESET}" ;;
*) shown="${MCA_C_GREEN}$(mca_msg "on")${MCA_C_RESET} ${MCA_C_DIM}($(mca_msg "launcher"))${MCA_C_RESET}" ;;
off) shown="$s_off" ;;
unknown) shown="$s_cannot" ;;
steam) shown="$s_steam" ;;
flags) shown="$s_flags" ;;
*) shown="$s_desktop" ;;
esac
pad=$(( 34 - ${#labels[i]} ))
(( pad < 0 )) && pad=0
@@ -426,7 +460,7 @@ mca_ui_apps() {
# Without this the list reads as a list of what is switched on, which
# it is not while the whole thing is off.
if [[ $CFG_ENABLED != yes ]]; then
frame+=" ${MCA_C_YELLOW}$(mca_msg "Autoscroll is off - this is what would be covered.")${MCA_C_RESET}"$'\n'
frame+=" ${MCA_C_YELLOW}${warn}${MCA_C_RESET}"$'\n'
fi
frame+=" ${MCA_C_DIM}${legend}${MCA_C_RESET}"$'\n'
frame+=" ${MCA_C_DIM}${hint}${MCA_C_RESET}"$'\n'
@@ -475,7 +509,7 @@ mca_ui_menu() {
mca_ui_status
printf '\n'
printf ' [1] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Turn autoscroll on or off")"
printf ' [2] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Apply now")"
printf ' [2] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Re-apply everything")"
printf ' [3] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Applications")"
printf ' [4] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Settings")"
printf ' [q] %s\n' "$(mca_msg "Quit")"
@@ -499,22 +533,28 @@ mca_ui_menu() {
fi
[[ -n $MCA_UI_NEEDS_ACK ]] && mca_pause
;;
# Not a plain apply: with the watcher running there is never
# anything left for one to do, and a menu entry that answers
# "already done" every time is not an action. This is the repair -
# everything is taken back and written again from scratch, which is
# what fixes an application that drifted, a flag file somebody
# edited, or Steam after it restored its own script.
2)
mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply
mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply --rebuild
mca_pause
;;
3)
if mca_ui_apps; then
[[ $CFG_ENABLED == yes ]] && mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply --changed
[[ $CFG_ENABLED == yes ]] && mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply --rebuild
fi
;;
4)
if mca_ui_settings; then
[[ $CFG_ENABLED == yes ]] && mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply --changed
[[ $CFG_ENABLED == yes ]] && mca_ui_cooked mca_do_apply --rebuild
fi
;;
q|Q) mca_ui_term_restore; trap - EXIT INT TERM; return 0 ;;
# Anything else - Enter, arrow keys, stray characters - just
# Anything else (Enter, arrow keys, stray characters) just
# redraws. Escape is deliberately not a quit key, so a mistyped
# arrow key cannot close the menu.
*) ;;
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@@ -4,21 +4,65 @@
#
# There are two ways in, and the order matters:
#
# 1. A flag file. Arch's Electron and Chromium wrappers read extra arguments
# from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf. This is the good one - it is the
# supported way to pass arguments, it survives package upgrades untouched,
# and it applies however the program is started, including from a terminal.
# 1. A flag file. Some distributions wrap Electron and Chromium in a
# launcher script that reads extra arguments from
# $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<name>-flags.conf. Arch and its derivatives do, and
# their packages follow that convention. Where it exists, this is the good
# way in: it is the supported way to pass arguments, it survives package upgrades
# untouched, and it applies however the program is started, including from
# a terminal.
#
# Nothing is assumed about which distribution this is. The launcher itself
# is read, and the route is taken only for a launcher that really does
# name such a file. On Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE the
# equivalent file lives under /etc and is the system's to write. There is
# no flag file to use there, and route 2 answers for everything.
#
# 2. A desktop entry. For applications that ship their own binary with no
# wrapper - most vendor packages, every Flatpak - there is nowhere else to
# put an argument, so a copy of the entry with the flag appended goes into
# ~/.local/share/applications, where it shadows the system one.
# wrapper, and for everything a Flatpak or a snap contains, there is
# nowhere else to put an argument, so a copy of the entry with the flag
# appended goes into ~/.local/share/applications, where it shadows the
# system one.
#
# Nothing outside $HOME is ever written to.
MCA_MARK_BEGIN='# >>> middleclick-autoscroll'
MCA_MARK_END='# <<< middleclick-autoscroll'
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Feature lists
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Both --enable-features and --enable-blink-features take a comma separated
# list, and Chromium keeps the last one it is given and drops the rest. A
# second one of the same kind would therefore silently switch off whatever the
# first one turned on, so an option that is already there is extended instead.
# _mca_list_merge <list> <wanted>
# The two lists as one, in the order they came and without repeating anything.
_mca_list_merge() {
local out="$1" item
for item in ${2//,/ }; do
[[ ",$out," == *",$item,"* ]] && continue
out="${out:+$out,}$item"
done
printf '%s' "$out"
}
# _mca_list_strip <list> <unwanted>
# The list without any of the named entries.
_mca_list_strip() {
local out='' item
for item in ${1//,/ }; do
[[ ",$2," == *",$item,"* ]] && continue
out="${out:+$out,}$item"
done
printf '%s' "$out"
}
# The two options, as a regular expression branch, for the places that have to
# recognise either of them.
MCA_FEATURE_OPTS='--enable-blink-features|--enable-features'
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Command lines
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -27,6 +71,11 @@ MCA_MARK_END='# <<< middleclick-autoscroll'
# Where an argument has to go: after the program and its own arguments, but
# before the first field code (%U and friends) or Flatpak's @@ markers, which
# are placeholders the launcher expands rather than arguments.
#
# A bare "--" stops it too. That is where Chromium stops reading switches and
# starts treating everything as an address, so a flag put after it is read as a
# page to open and the feature never comes on. Discord's entry is exactly that
# shape: `discord --url -- %u`.
_mca_exec_insert_at() {
local rest="$1" tok idx=0
@@ -35,7 +84,7 @@ _mca_exec_insert_at() {
[[ -n $rest ]] || break
tok="${rest%% *}"
case "$tok" in
%[a-zA-Z]|@@|@@u) printf '%s\n' "$idx"; return 0 ;;
%[a-zA-Z]|@@|@@u|--) printf '%s\n' "$idx"; return 0 ;;
esac
rest="${rest:${#tok}}"
idx=$(( idx + ${#tok} ))
@@ -60,28 +109,32 @@ _mca_exec_after_program() {
# Prints nothing and returns 1 when there was nothing to change, so callers can
# tell a real edit from a no-op without diffing.
#
# An --enable-blink-features that is already there is extended rather than
# repeated: Chromium keeps the last occurrence of the option and drops the
# rest, so a second one would silently disable whatever the first turned on.
# A feature list that is already on the line is extended rather than repeated.
# See _mca_list_merge.
mca_exec_inject() {
local line="$1" flagstr="${2:-}" where="${3:-before-fields}"
local flag value existing at changed=0
local flag opt value existing merged re at changed=0
local -a flags
[[ -n $flagstr ]] || flagstr="$(mca_flags)"
read -r -a flags <<< "$flagstr"
for flag in "${flags[@]}"; do
if [[ $flag == --enable-blink-features=* ]]; then
value="${flag#--enable-blink-features=}"
if [[ $line =~ --enable-blink-features=([A-Za-z0-9,_-]*) ]]; then
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
[[ ",$existing," == *",$value,"* ]] && continue
line="${line/--enable-blink-features=$existing/--enable-blink-features=${existing:+$existing,}$value}"
case "$flag" in
--enable-blink-features=*|--enable-features=*)
opt="${flag%%=*}"
value="${flag#*=}"
re="(^|[[:space:]])$opt=([^[:space:]]*)"
if [[ $line =~ $re ]]; then
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
merged="$(_mca_list_merge "$existing" "$value")"
[[ $merged == "$existing" ]] && continue
line="${line/$opt=$existing/$opt=$merged}"
changed=1
continue
fi
fi
;;
esac
[[ " $line " == *" $flag "* ]] && continue
@@ -107,12 +160,12 @@ mca_exec_inject() {
# Flag files
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# mca_flags_apply <program>
# mca_flags_apply <program> [kind]
# Writes the flags into the file the program's launcher reads. Returns 0 when
# the program has such a file (whether or not anything needed changing), 1 when
# it has none and the desktop entry route has to be used instead.
mca_flags_apply() {
local prog="$1" name target='' existing_target=''
local prog="$1" kind="${2:-app}" name target='' existing_target=''
local -a candidates=()
mapfile -t candidates < <(mca_flags_candidates "$prog" | awk '!seen[$0]++')
@@ -123,29 +176,31 @@ mca_flags_apply() {
for name in "${candidates[@]}"; do
if [[ -f "$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/$name" ]]; then
existing_target="$name"
_mca_flags_write "$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/$name"
_mca_flags_write "$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/$name" "$kind"
fi
done
[[ -n $existing_target ]] && return 0
# None exists yet. The last candidate is the wrapper's own fallback - the
# generic electron-flags.conf rather than electron43-flags.conf - so
# None exists yet. The last candidate is the wrapper's own fallback (the
# generic electron-flags.conf rather than electron43-flags.conf). So
# creating that one also covers every other application using the same
# shared Electron.
target="${candidates[-1]}"
_mca_flags_write "$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/$target"
_mca_flags_write "$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/$target" "$kind"
return 0
}
# _mca_flags_write <file>
# Adds the flags as a marked block, or merges into an --enable-blink-features
# line that is already in the file.
# _mca_flags_write <file> [kind]
# Adds the flags as a marked block, or merges into a feature list that is
# already in the file.
_mca_flags_write() {
local file="$1" content='' line flag value existing merged=0 block=''
local file="$1" kind="${2:-app}"
local content='' line flag opt want existing merged=0 block=''
local -a flags
local -A merged_opts=()
local created=0
read -r -a flags <<< "$(mca_flags)"
read -r -a flags <<< "$(mca_flags "$kind")"
[[ -f $file ]] || created=1
if (( ! created )); then
@@ -156,24 +211,31 @@ _mca_flags_write() {
fi
fi
# Merge into a blink-features line the user (or a distribution) put there.
if [[ $content == *--enable-blink-features=* ]]; then
# Merge into a feature list the user (or a distribution) put there, rather
# than write a second line of the same option further down.
if [[ $content == *--enable-* ]]; then
local out=''
while IFS= read -r line; do
if [[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*--enable-blink-features=([A-Za-z0-9,_-]*)[[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
if [[ ",$existing," != *",$MCA_FEATURE,"* ]]; then
line="--enable-blink-features=${existing:+$existing,}$MCA_FEATURE"
fi
if [[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*($MCA_FEATURE_OPTS)=([^[:space:]]*)[[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
opt="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
want=''
for flag in "${flags[@]}"; do
[[ $flag == "$opt="* ]] && want="${flag#*=}"
done
if [[ -n $want ]]; then
line="$opt=$(_mca_list_merge "$existing" "$want")"
merged_opts["$opt"]=1
merged=1
fi
fi
out+="$line"$'\n'
done <<< "$content"
content="${out%$'\n'}"
fi
for flag in "${flags[@]}"; do
(( merged )) && [[ $flag == --enable-blink-features=* ]] && continue
[[ -n ${merged_opts["${flag%%=*}"]:-} ]] && continue
block+="$flag"$'\n'
done
@@ -195,9 +257,6 @@ _mca_flags_write() {
mca_ledger_add flags "$file" block
fi
# Every application whose flag file was touched counts as covered, so the
# status line can say how many there are.
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$file")
return 0
}
@@ -211,7 +270,7 @@ _mca_flags_drop_block() {
# mca_flags_revert <file> <detail>
mca_flags_revert() {
local file="$1" detail="$2" content line out='' existing new
local file="$1" detail="$2" content line out='' opt existing new
[[ -f $file ]] || return 0
@@ -231,12 +290,13 @@ mca_flags_revert() {
if [[ $detail == merged* ]]; then
while IFS= read -r line; do
if [[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*--enable-blink-features=([A-Za-z0-9,_-]*)[[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
new="${existing//$MCA_FEATURE/}"
new="${new//,,/,}"; new="${new#,}"; new="${new%,}"
if [[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*($MCA_FEATURE_OPTS)=([^[:space:]]*)[[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
opt="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
existing="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
# Either name, whichever version of this program put it there.
new="$(_mca_list_strip "$existing" "$MCA_BROWSER_FEATURES")"
[[ -z $new ]] && continue
line="--enable-blink-features=$new"
line="$opt=$new"
fi
out+="$line"$'\n'
done <<< "$content"
@@ -255,12 +315,20 @@ mca_flags_revert() {
# Desktop entries
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# _mca_desktop_transform <file> [flags] [position]
# The whole file with every Exec line rewritten - the main one and the one in
# A generated entry and an entry that was edited in place look similar and must
# never be confused: the first one is ours to delete, the second one is the
# user's file with one line changed and has to be restored from its backup. They
# carry different markers so that the scan, the "already done" checks and the
# undo can all tell them apart.
MCA_MARK_SHADOW='X-MCA-Generated'
MCA_MARK_INPLACE='X-MCA-Patched'
# _mca_desktop_transform <file> <marker> [flags] [position]
# The whole file with every Exec line rewritten: the main one and the one in
# each Desktop Action, because those are the right-click menu entries and a
# user who starts Steam from "Library" expects the same behaviour there.
_mca_desktop_transform() {
local file="$1" flags="${2:-}" where="${3:-before-fields}"
local file="$1" marker="$2" flags="${3:-}" where="${4:-before-fields}"
local line rest new marked=0
while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n $line ]]; do
@@ -283,7 +351,7 @@ _mca_desktop_transform() {
printf '%s\n' "$line"
if (( ! marked )) && [[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*\[Desktop\ Entry\][[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
printf 'X-MCA-Generated=%s\n' "$MCA_VERSION"
printf '%s=%s\n' "$marker" "$MCA_VERSION"
marked=1
fi
done < "$file"
@@ -297,12 +365,12 @@ mca_desktop_apply() {
local target="$MCA_APPDIR/$id.desktop" content backup
if [[ "$src" == "$target" ]]; then
# The user's own entry - an AppImage, a web app shortcut, something
# installed by hand. There is nowhere to shadow it from, so it is
# The user's own entry, like an AppImage, a web app shortcut or
# something installed by hand. There is nowhere to shadow it from, so it is
# edited directly and the original is kept.
grep -q '^X-MCA-Generated=' "$src" 2>/dev/null && return 0
grep -q "^$MCA_MARK_INPLACE=" "$src" 2>/dev/null && return 0
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$src" "$flags" "$where")"
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$src" "$MCA_MARK_INPLACE" "$flags" "$where")"
[[ -n $content ]] || return 1
[[ "$content" == "$(< "$src")" ]] && return 0
@@ -311,18 +379,18 @@ mca_desktop_apply() {
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_add inplace "$src" "$backup"
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$src")
return 0
fi
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$src" "$flags" "$where")"
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$src" "$MCA_MARK_SHADOW" "$flags" "$where")"
[[ -n $content ]] || return 1
mkdir -p "$MCA_APPDIR" 2>/dev/null || return 1
# Something is already shadowing this entry. If it is not ours it is the
# user's own override and is left exactly as it is.
if [[ -e $target ]] && ! grep -q '^X-MCA-Generated=' "$target" 2>/dev/null; then
# Something is already shadowing this entry. Unless it is a shadow of ours,
# it is the user's own file (possibly one we edited in place earlier), and
# overwriting it here would lose it.
if [[ -e $target ]] && ! grep -q "^$MCA_MARK_SHADOW=" "$target" 2>/dev/null; then
return 1
fi
@@ -330,44 +398,124 @@ mca_desktop_apply() {
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_add shadow "$target" "$src"
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$target")
return 0
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Autostart entries
# Entries outside the search path
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Applications that start themselves at login write their own entry into
# ~/.config/autostart, pointing straight at their binary. Those bypass the
# desktop entry in the menu completely, which is why Discord launched at login
# used to behave differently from Discord launched from the menu.
# Two directories hold desktop entries that no part of the XDG search path
# looks at, so nothing the scan does can reach them:
#
# ~/.config/autostart, where applications that start themselves at login
# write their own entry, pointing straight at their binary. Those bypass the
# entry in the menu completely, which is why Discord launched at login used
# to behave differently from Discord launched from the menu.
#
# The desktop folder, where a shortcut somebody dragged out of the menu
# (or asked Steam for) lives and nowhere else.
#
# Neither can be shadowed from anywhere, so both are edited where they stand,
# with the original kept.
# _mca_entry_patch_inplace <file> <gate: autostart|apps>
# One desktop entry that lives outside the XDG search path, edited where it is
# because there is nowhere to shadow it from.
#
# What decides whether an application here is in scope differs by where the
# entry came from, which is what the gate says: an autostart entry follows the
# autostart setting, a shortcut follows the same rules as the application it is
# a shortcut to.
_mca_entry_patch_inplace() {
local file="$1" gate="$2"
local id prog packaging=native content backup kind copy
# Already ours, and normally that is the end of it: what is in there is what
# this version put there. Not so for a file the ledger has no record of -
# nothing would ever look at that one again, neither the undo a change of
# flags goes through nor this, which leaves a marked file alone, and it would
# keep an answer from an older version for good. The copy taken before the
# edit is named after the path and is still there, so the file goes back to
# what it was and is written again below.
if grep -q "^$MCA_MARK_INPLACE=" "$file" 2>/dev/null; then
mca_ledger_has "$file" && return 0
copy="$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$(mca_backup_name "$file")"
[[ -f $copy ]] || return 0
cp -p -- "$copy" "$file" 2>/dev/null || return 0
fi
_mca_desktop_read "$file"
[[ -n $DE_EXEC ]] || return 0
[[ $DE_HIDDEN == true ]] && return 0
mca_exec_program "$DE_EXEC" || return 0
prog="$MCA_PROG"
# A Flatpak or a snap entry names the wrapper rather than the application.
# The scan resolves those into an id; outside the scan the same has to
# happen here, or every Flatpak looks like the flatpak program itself.
if [[ ${prog##*/} == flatpak ]]; then
mca_exec_flatpak_id "$DE_EXEC" || return 0
prog="flatpak:$MCA_PROG"
packaging=flatpak
elif mca_snap_name "$prog"; then
prog="snap:$MCA_PROG"
packaging=snap
fi
# An entry that starts Steam is left where it is. Steam takes nothing
# from a command line that would help, and what it does take belongs to
# the web helper script in its own installation.
mca_prog_is_steam "$prog" && return 0
case "$packaging" in
flatpak) mca_flatpak_is_chromium "${prog#flatpak:}" || return 0 ;;
snap) mca_snap_is_chromium "${prog#snap:}" || return 0 ;;
*) mca_is_chromium "$prog" || return 0 ;;
esac
mca_desktop_is_browser && kind=browser || kind=app
if [[ $gate == autostart ]]; then
[[ $CFG_AUTOSTART == yes ]] || return 0
else
id="${file##*/}"; id="${id%.desktop}"
mca_kind_wanted "$kind" "$id" "$packaging" || return 0
fi
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$file" "$MCA_MARK_INPLACE" \
"$(mca_flags "$kind")")"
[[ -n $content ]] || return 0
[[ "$content" == "$(< "$file")" ]] && return 0
backup="$(mca_backup "$file")" || return 0
if mca_write_if_changed "$file" "$content"$'\n'; then
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_add inplace "$file" "$backup"
}
mca_autostart_apply() {
local dir="$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/autostart" file exec_line prog content backup
local dir="$MCA_XDG_CONFIG/autostart" file
[[ -d $dir ]] || return 0
for file in "$dir"/*.desktop; do
[[ -f $file ]] || continue
grep -q '^X-MCA-Generated=' "$file" 2>/dev/null && continue
_mca_entry_patch_inplace "$file" autostart
done
}
exec_line="$(mca_desktop_get "$file" Exec)"
[[ -n $exec_line ]] || continue
mca_shortcuts_apply() {
local dir file
dir="$(mca_desktop_folder)"
mca_exec_program "$exec_line" || continue
prog="$MCA_PROG"
mca_is_chromium "$prog" || continue
[[ -d $dir ]] || return 0
content="$(_mca_desktop_transform "$file")"
[[ -n $content ]] || continue
[[ "$content" == "$(< "$file")" ]] && continue
backup="$(mca_backup "$file")" || continue
if mca_write_if_changed "$file" "$content"$'\n'; then
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_add inplace "$file" "$backup"
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$file")
for file in "$dir"/*.desktop; do
[[ -f $file ]] || continue
_mca_entry_patch_inplace "$file" apps
done
}
@@ -412,7 +560,53 @@ mca_spotify_apply() {
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_add inplace "$file" "${backup:-}"
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$file")
return 0
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Leftovers
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# mca_prune_orphans
# Forgets changes there is no longer anything to undo.
#
# Uninstalling something deletes its entry from /usr/share/applications, but the
# copy shadowing it is in the user's home and pacman knows nothing about it. It
# would sit in the menu forever, offering to start a program that is no longer
# installed. And the watcher would not notice, because a plain apply only ever
# looks at what is there now. A file that was edited where it stood and has
# since been deleted is the same problem from the other side: its record would
# have `disable` put the file back.
mca_prune_orphans() {
local kind path source line
local -a lines=()
[[ -f $MCA_LEDGER ]] || return 0
mapfile -t lines < "$MCA_LEDGER"
for line in "${lines[@]}"; do
IFS=$'\t' read -r kind path source <<< "$line"
# An entry that was edited where it stood and has since been deleted -
# a game shortcut dragged to the wastebasket, an autostart entry the
# application removed. There is nothing left to put back, and keeping
# the record would have `disable` recreate a file the user threw away.
if [[ $kind == inplace && ! -e $path ]]; then
[[ -n $source ]] && rm -f -- "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$source"
mca_ledger_forget "$path"
continue
fi
[[ $kind == shadow && -n $source ]] || continue
[[ -e $source ]] && continue
# Only ever remove something still recognisably ours.
if [[ -f $path ]] && grep -q "^$MCA_MARK_SHADOW=" "$path" 2>/dev/null; then
rm -f -- "$path"
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
mca_ledger_forget "$path"
done
return 0
}
@@ -431,7 +625,7 @@ mca_revert_all() {
case "$kind" in
shadow)
# Only remove what is still recognisably ours.
if [[ -f $path ]] && grep -q '^X-MCA-Generated=' "$path" 2>/dev/null; then
if [[ -f $path ]] && grep -q "^$MCA_MARK_SHADOW=" "$path" 2>/dev/null; then
rm -f -- "$path"
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
@@ -457,6 +651,10 @@ mca_revert_all() {
mca_steam_revert "$path" "$detail" \
&& MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
;;
kwin)
mca_kde_paste_revert "$path" "$detail" \
&& MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
;;
esac
done < <(tac "$MCA_LEDGER" 2>/dev/null)
+157 -33
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@@ -2,27 +2,42 @@
#
# Steam.
#
# Steam's interface is CEF, so the feature is there - but Steam builds the
# Steam's interface is CEF, so the feature is there. But Steam builds the
# command line for its web helper itself and offers no way to add to it. The
# only place to get an argument in is the shell script that starts the helper,
# which lives inside Steam's own installation:
#
# ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper_sniper_wrap.sh
#
# Steam checksums that script at every start and restores it when it differs,
# which is why the launcher gets -noverifyfiles as well. The trade-off is real
# and belongs to the user, so this is a switch of its own rather than part of
# the general application handling: with verification off, Steam no longer
# repairs a damaged installation by itself.
# Steam compares the installed files against its manifest at every start (by
# size and timestamp, not by content) and restores whatever differs.
# So the patch is written to look untouched: the bytes the flag costs are taken
# back out of the script's comments and the timestamp is put back afterwards,
# which leaves a file that is byte-for-byte the size Steam recorded and as old
# as Steam left it. A client that verifies its files finds nothing to repair
# and the flag survives however Steam was started: from the menu, from a game
# shortcut, from a launcher like Heroic, or from a terminal.
#
# A patch that changes the length is not an option, and no switch covers for
# one. Steam checks its files at a start it was given arguments for, but also
# at the shutdown it runs itself. That one has no -noverifyfiles on its
# command line, whatever the session was started with. What a single wrong
# length costs is the whole client package downloaded, extracted and installed
# again, and a client that quits at the end of it instead of coming up. So the
# flag either fits in the space the comments give back, or it is not written at
# all: no autoscroll in the interface is a smaller thing than a client that
# reinstalls itself.
#
# The file comes back on every client update, and the watcher re-applies the
# patch when that happens.
MCA_STEAM_EXEC='exec ./steamwebhelper "$@"'
MCA_STEAM_LAUNCH_FLAG='-noverifyfiles'
# Every place a Steam installation is known to live, resolved and de-duplicated
# because ~/.steam/steam is normally a symlink into ~/.local/share.
#
# Which of these is the real one depends on how Steam was installed: Valve's
# own package and the Arch one use ~/.local/share/Steam, Debian's puts it in
# ~/.steam/debian-installation, and the Flatpak and the snap each keep it
# inside the private tree their sandbox gives them.
mca_steam_roots() {
local candidates=(
"$MCA_XDG_DATA/Steam"
@@ -30,6 +45,8 @@ mca_steam_roots() {
"$HOME/.steam/root"
"$HOME/.steam/debian-installation"
"$HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam"
"$HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam"
"$HOME/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam"
)
local dir real
local -A seen=()
@@ -93,12 +110,116 @@ _mca_steam_exec_line() {
' "$1" 2>/dev/null
}
# _mca_steam_build <script> <flags>
# The patched script on stdout: the flags appended to the line that starts the
# web helper, and the same number of bytes taken back out of the script's
# comments, so that the file Steam finds is the length Steam wrote down.
# Everything else is left alone, like setting up the container runtime or
# deciding whether the sandbox can be used.
#
# Comments are eaten from the bottom up, so the header that says what the
# script is for is the last thing to lose anything, and the '#' itself always
# stays: a line that loses it stops being a comment and starts being a command.
# Fails when the comments are too short to pay for the flags.
_mca_steam_build() {
local script="$1" flags="$2" lineno need
lineno="$(_mca_steam_exec_line "$script")"
[[ -n $lineno ]] || return 1
need="$(printf '%s' " $flags" | wc -c)"
need="${need//[^0-9]/}"
# LC_ALL=C so awk counts bytes: a comment with an accent in it is shorter
# in characters than it is on disk, and it is the disk that Steam measures.
LC_ALL=C awk -v n="$lineno" -v f=" $flags" -v need="$need" '
{ lines[NR] = (NR == n ? $0 f : $0) }
END {
for (i = NR; i >= 2 && need > 0; i--) {
if (i == n) continue
p = index(lines[i], "#")
if (p == 0) continue
# Only a line that is nothing but a comment; a trailing one
# sits behind a command that has to stay intact.
if (substr(lines[i], 1, p - 1) ~ /[^ \t]/) continue
can = length(lines[i]) - p
if (can <= 0) continue
if (can > need) can = need
lines[i] = substr(lines[i], 1, length(lines[i]) - can)
need -= can
}
if (need > 0) exit 1
for (i = 1; i <= NR; i++) print lines[i]
}
' "$script"
}
# _mca_steam_same_size <script> <content>
# Whether writing that content leaves the file at the size it has now. Measured
# rather than worked out: a script without a final newline gains one on the way
# through awk, and one byte is all it takes for Steam to notice.
_mca_steam_same_size() {
local script="$1" content="$2"
(( $(wc -c < "$script") == $(printf '%s\n' "$content" | wc -c) ))
}
# _mca_steam_refresh_backup <script>
# A client update brings a new version of the script, and the copy kept from
# before it is no longer what putting it back means. Only ever done while the
# script is unpatched, so the copy that replaces it is Steam's own.
_mca_steam_refresh_backup() {
local script="$1" name
name="$(mca_backup_name "$script")"
[[ -e "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$name" ]] || return 0
cmp -s -- "$script" "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$name" && return 0
cp -p -- "$script" "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$name" 2>/dev/null || true
}
# _mca_steam_settle <script> <flags>
# The script is already patched. Whether that is a patch Steam can live with is
# a question of length: an earlier version of this program appended the flag
# where the comments could not pay for it, which leaves the script longer than
# the file Steam wrote down. A client that checks its files reinstalls itself
# over that, then quits instead of starting.
#
# Rebuilt from the untouched original kept when the script was first patched,
# never from the patched file, the flag either fits this time or the original
# goes back and Steam is left with a client it recognises.
_mca_steam_settle() {
local script="$1" flags="$2" name copy out
name="$(mca_backup_name "$script")"
copy="$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$name"
# Nothing to compare against, so nothing can be said about the length.
[[ -f $copy ]] || return 0
# Already the length Steam expects: the patch is a good one.
(( $(wc -c < "$script") == $(wc -c < "$copy") )) && return 0
if out="$(_mca_steam_build "$copy" "$flags")" && _mca_steam_same_size "$copy" "$out"; then
if mca_write_if_changed "$script" "$out"$'\n'; then
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
chmod +x -- "$script" 2>/dev/null || true
touch -r "$copy" -- "$script" 2>/dev/null || true
mca_ledger_add steam "$script" "$name"
return 0
fi
mca_steam_revert "$script" "$name"
mca_ledger_forget "$script"
mca_note "$(mca_msg "Steam's interface cannot be given the flag without leaving a file Steam would reinstall; the change has been taken back.")"
return 0
}
# mca_steam_apply
# Appends the flags to the line that starts the web helper. Everything else in
# the script - setting up the container runtime, deciding whether the sandbox
# can be used - is left alone.
# Puts the flags into every Steam installation that has the script, and only
# where that can be done without changing how long the file is. Returns 1 when
# there is no Steam to patch at all.
mca_steam_apply() {
local root script backup flags lineno found=0 out
local root script backup flags found=0 out
flags="$(mca_flags)"
@@ -106,26 +227,38 @@ mca_steam_apply() {
script="$(mca_steam_script "$root")" || continue
found=1
mca_steam_script_patched "$script" && { MCA_TOUCHED+=("$script"); continue; }
lineno="$(_mca_steam_exec_line "$script")"
if [[ -z $lineno ]]; then
# A client update changed how the helper is started. Leaving the
# file alone is the only safe answer: this script is what starts
# Steam's entire interface.
mca_note "$(mca_msg "Steam starts its interface in a way this version does not recognise; leaving it alone.")"
if mca_steam_script_patched "$script"; then
_mca_steam_settle "$script" "$flags"
continue
fi
out="$(awk -v n="$lineno" -v f=" $flags" 'NR == n { $0 = $0 f } { print }' "$script")" || continue
_mca_steam_refresh_backup "$script"
# Either the comments can pay for the flag or nothing is written.
# A longer file is one Steam reinstalls itself over; a client update
# that changed how the helper is started leaves no line to patch at
# all. Both end here, and this script is what starts Steam's entire
# interface, so leaving it alone is the only safe answer to either.
if ! { out="$(_mca_steam_build "$script" "$flags")" \
&& _mca_steam_same_size "$script" "$out"; }
then
mca_note "$(mca_msg "Steam starts its interface in a way this version cannot change without Steam noticing; leaving it alone.")"
continue
fi
backup="$(mca_backup "$script")" || continue
if mca_write_if_changed "$script" "$out"$'\n'; then
MCA_CHANGES=$(( MCA_CHANGES + 1 ))
fi
chmod +x -- "$script" 2>/dev/null || true
# Steam looks at when the file was last written as well as at how big
# it is, and the copy taken before the edit still carries the original
# timestamp. Putting it back costs nothing and removes the other half
# of what the client would notice.
touch -r "$MCA_BACKUPDIR/$backup" -- "$script" 2>/dev/null || true
mca_ledger_add steam "$script" "$backup"
MCA_TOUCHED+=("$script")
done < <(mca_steam_roots)
(( found ))
@@ -144,7 +277,7 @@ mca_steam_revert() {
return 0
fi
# No backup to fall back on - take the flags back out of the exec line.
# No backup to fall back on, so take the flags back out of the exec line.
[[ -f $script ]] || return 1
local tmp
tmp="$(mktemp "${script}.XXXXXX")" || return 1
@@ -152,12 +285,3 @@ mca_steam_revert() {
chmod +x -- "$script" 2>/dev/null || true
return 0
}
# mca_steam_desktop_apply <id> <source entry>
# Steam restores its own files at every start unless it is told not to verify
# them, so the launcher entry carries that switch. It goes directly after the
# program because Steam reads its options before the steam:// argument that the
# right-click actions pass.
mca_steam_desktop_apply() {
mca_desktop_apply "$1" "$2" "$MCA_STEAM_LAUNCH_FLAG" after-program
}
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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# middleclick-autoscroll - middle-click autoscroll for Chromium-based
# middleclick-autoscroll: middle-click autoscroll for Chromium-based
# applications on Linux
#
# Blink has had Windows-style autoscroll for years, behind a runtime flag that
# is not turned on for Linux because middle click is taken by primary-selection
# paste there. Turning it on is a matter of one command line argument - the
# paste there. Turning it on is a matter of one command line argument. The
# work is finding every application that needs it, putting the argument
# somewhere it survives an update, and doing the same for the two programs that
# do not take arguments at all.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ set -uo pipefail
MCA_LIBDIR="${MCA_LIBDIR:-@LIBDIR@}"
for _mod in common config detect patch steam apply menu; do
for _mod in common config detect patch steam kde apply menu; do
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
if ! source "$MCA_LIBDIR/$_mod.sh"; then
printf 'middleclick-autoscroll: cannot load %s/%s.sh\n' "$MCA_LIBDIR" "$_mod" >&2
@@ -50,16 +50,12 @@ mca_do_enable() {
if mca_watch_available; then
mca_watch_enable || mca_note "$(mca_msg "Could not start the watcher for newly installed applications.")"
else
mca_note "$(mca_msg "No systemd user session - newly installed applications will not be picked up on their own.")"
mca_note "$(mca_msg "No systemd user session, so newly installed applications will not be picked up on their own.")"
fi
fi
mca_ok "$(mca_msg "Autoscroll is on for %d applications." "$MCA_N_ON")"
if [[ $CFG_STEAM == yes ]] && mca_steam_installed; then
mca_note "$(mca_msg "Steam's launcher now skips its file check, which is what keeps the change from being undone at every start.")"
fi
mca_note "$(mca_msg "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted.")"
}
@@ -76,11 +72,11 @@ mca_do_disable() {
}
mca_do_apply() {
local changed=0 arg
local rebuild=0 arg
for arg in "$@"; do
case "$arg" in
--changed) changed=1 ;;
--rebuild) rebuild=1 ;;
--quiet) MCA_QUIET=1 ;;
esac
done
@@ -95,25 +91,36 @@ mca_do_apply() {
return 1
fi
# A settings change can take an application out of scope as well as bring
# one in, and only a full undo can tell the difference, so that path starts
# from a clean slate. The watcher never does this: rewriting files that are
# already correct would make it trigger itself.
if (( changed )); then
# Start from a clean slate. Needed after a settings change, which can take
# an application out of scope as well as bring one in and where only a full
# undo can tell the difference, and it is what makes the repair a repair:
# whatever drifted is written again rather than left because it is "already
# applied".
#
# The watcher never does this. Rewriting files that are already correct
# would change their timestamps, and it is watching those directories.
if (( rebuild )); then
mca_revert
fi
mca_apply
if (( MCA_CHANGES )); then
if (( rebuild )); then
mca_ok "$(mca_msg "Applied again to %d applications." "$MCA_N_ON")"
mca_say " $(mca_msg "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted.")"
elif (( MCA_CHANGES )); then
mca_ok "$(mca_msg "Applied to %d applications." "$MCA_N_ON")"
mca_say " $(mca_msg "Applications that are already running pick this up when they are restarted.")"
else
mca_ok "$(mca_msg "Already applied to %d applications." "$MCA_N_ON")"
fi
if [[ $CFG_WATCH == yes ]] && mca_watch_available && ! mca_watch_enabled; then
if [[ $CFG_WATCH == yes ]] && mca_watch_available; then
if mca_watch_enabled; then
mca_watch_refresh
else
mca_watch_enable || true
fi
elif [[ $CFG_WATCH != yes ]] && mca_watch_enabled; then
mca_watch_disable
fi
@@ -160,6 +167,7 @@ mca_do_help() {
enable $(mca_msg "Turn autoscroll on")
disable $(mca_msg "Turn it off and put everything back")
apply $(mca_msg "Apply to anything installed since the last run")
apply --rebuild $(mca_msg "Take everything back and apply it again")
status $(mca_msg "Show what is covered")
list $(mca_msg "List every application that was found")
-h, --help $(mca_msg "Show this help")