▲ 10 ▼ GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com) submitted 7 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de [M] to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) What would middle click do instead? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) Whatever action is bound to it in applications that use it. It's a mouse button like any other. You can scroll a page in Firefox or click-drag across a surface in certain applications. That's actually the most common usage for the middle mouse button. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Seems like that should be still configurable for either action at the OS level and certainly (at least through about:config) in Firefox’s settings. Or are both entities really going to prevent that behavior? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can't reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) Whatever action is bound to it in applications that use it. It's a mouse button like any other. You can scroll a page in Firefox or click-drag across a surface in certain applications. That's actually the most common usage for the middle mouse button. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Seems like that should be still configurable for either action at the OS level and certainly (at least through about:config) in Firefox’s settings. Or are both entities really going to prevent that behavior? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can't reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Seems like that should be still configurable for either action at the OS level and certainly (at least through about:config) in Firefox’s settings. Or are both entities really going to prevent that behavior? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can't reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can't reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal. permalink fedilink source parent