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petsoi ( petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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petsoi ( petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago
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A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.
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    But why? It hurts noone to have that enabled.

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      It will hurt less being disabled

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      Sure, if you grew with that feature and use it, it doesn’t hurt you. For others though, this is pain, it fucking hurts to keep accidentally paste stuff all over due to a legacy feature.

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        I’ve literally used Linux for over 5 years without ever noticing middle click did anything unusual until a colleagues showed me he could magically paste things with the mouse and I had to ask how he did it. Now I use it frequently and love the feature. I just don’t understand how you “keep accidentally paste stuff all over” when I’ve never heard any of my Linux friends and colleges ever mention anything about it and like me they were supprised and happy when I showed them the feature as well.

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          Accidental paste mostly happens to me on my multi monitor setup where a window use MMB for other stuff like panning and I accidentally move on another screen.

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      Post literally describes who and how it hurts. You need to read.

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        I did read it. I still do t understandthe issues. Most normal people do to my knowledge not even know they can middle click. And on most laptops three finger middle click is usually disabled by default. Having issues with “confusion” is to me a made up problem.

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          If you’ve never accidentally pressed the mouse wheel while using your mouse you must just not use computers very much, especially not for work

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            I dont belive that your argument adds much to the discussion.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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              I don’t believe ur mom adds much to the discussion xD

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