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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This has been such a weird annoyance for me. Since I primarily use a Thinkpad with a track point, I would find myself middle click pasting randomly while scrolling through code or whatever

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?

    I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I haven't been able to find a global setting. Afaik, it's baked into x11? The only way I saw to disable it on forums was totally disabling middle click, which I do not want either

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    I was able to disable it on KDE somewhere in settings (would try to find it rn but I'm not home), but that was pre-6.1 so I hope it isn't back. For me it was mainly an issue when trying to pane a view, which depending on the game i played before I'll try to do by holding middle mouse button. Great fun pasting a random image onto the retro miro board on accident...

    Not sure about other DEs, but it seems likely it's possible somehow.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn't change the fact that it's a really weird default. How many users actually want this on, vs don't care/don't want it?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    If you don't know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn't a fact.

    I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.

    Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I'm not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.

    Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.

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