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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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But why? It hurts noone to have that enabled.
It messes with click to scroll, or just pastes things when all you want is to activate a window or something
Why would you activate widows with middle clicks? I'm fine having the toggle button, I'm not against that. I just dont see the harm in leaving it as paste as default.
Not sure but old habits die hard.
The only times something got pasted with middle click was accidental and then it doesn't even take what's in the clipboard, which is also annoying if you're in the habit of selecting text randomly when you read.