• sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
    236·
    10 months ago

    Middle click paste sucks, I keep accideE&4nry!NAnY6Yfntally activating it in the middle of my documents which is bad when I have st6SFMzZkTR7!b^yuff like passwords copied and don’t notice, so good

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      KDE and Gnome already have toggles for it, though Gnome’s is in gnome-tweaks because Gnome hates exposed settings.

      I’d support unifying behavior between toolkits and apps to provide users with a single point to set their preference, but I use this feature a hundred times a day. I’d also like it to remain the default; *nix desktops should have their own flavor instead of just copying Mac OS or Windows, and middle-click paste has been a part of that flavor for 40 years.

  • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    10 months ago

    Ill be very happy when that day comes. Its one of the first things I need to search for how to disable every time i setup a new machine. To me, middle click has always been panning a canvas, and rectangle selecting text in editors. Its always super jarring having it paste text on new gnome machines

  • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    TIL why that exists and how it works after using Linux for five years. I always wondered why someone put a function like pasting but not also copying text on the mouse and never realised you just have to select it since apparently there is a second clipboard. I wouldn’t miss it but it also wasn’t that big of a problem.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
    62·
    10 months ago

    Not once in over 20 years of daily Firefox usage have I used this feature.

  • db2@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    Not having that in Windows is jarring.

    I don’t use GNOME or Firefox though so maybe who cares.

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I am used to using middle mouse button to move canvas in both Krita and Inkscape. I know that it would be a silly default to just use it for movement, but countless missclicks in LibreOffice are reason good enough to be at least ocassionally frustrated over the default.