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

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 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 5 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.