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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/linux@sopuli.xyz

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be honest, I don't like middle-mouse paste because I use the middle mouse for too much other stuff, and because it goes alongside select to copy, which tends to overwrite the paste buffer at the least convenient time.

But turning it off (by default) because it's not how Windows does it is fucking stupid. It's exactly the kind of stupid decision GNOME has been making for decades, and why I no longer use it. I just hope it won't be yet another subtle difference in behaviour between gtk and Qt apps.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

which tends to overwrite the paste buffer

Isn't it a different buffer?

At least on my KDE system I can use Ctrl-C and select-middle-mouse in parallel without them overwriting each other.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

It's different from the Ctrl-C buffer, but selecting overwrites the middle-mouse paste buffer, so you have to delete text you want to replace before going to the place you're copying it from.