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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Reisen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

as someone new to linux i don't get it. if you have your hand in ctrl-c anyway ctrl-v is right there?

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 4 points 3 months ago

@Reisen Among other things, it's useful in terminals where the standard ctrl-c/ctrl-v send a control signal rather than copy/paste. Most terminals nowadays have some other copy/paste shortcut so it's less important now, but a lot of us still find it convenient.

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[–] Xylight@feddit.online 3 points 3 months ago

As a newgen (derogatory), Id appreciate this. Middle click has always been auto-scroll to me and it takes a good search to figure out how to disable it on a new installation.

[–] DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that's not optional, I'd have to leave Firefox for something else.

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[–] wlfrn@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the keyboard shortcut for primary clipboard paste (Shift+Ins) is already gone from gtk.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/352 (closed)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070518 (open)
There's a nice Q/A on stackexchange: "Why does Shift+Insert paste from CLIPBOARD in some applications and PRIMARY in others?"

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 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.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Well, I guess I'd have to use a fork of... oh, wait a second, I've already been alternating between Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, LibreWolf, and Firefox along with Tor and Links.

I just would be using less of Firefox and more of LibreWolf. And when Ladybird is ready, I'll use that and dillo.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago

Yes, please. Lets dumb down userinterfaces more. I think the right mouse button should go away next, people can't rightclick on touchscreens anyway, and many are confused by the extra button.

/s. so many /s. thank good it's open source, if they ever remove the setting to turn it back on, i can just put the code back in.

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