It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a really weird default. How many users actually want this on, vs don’t care/don’t want it?
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running_ragged@lemmy.world 3 days agoIsn’t it just a setting to disable it?
I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
running_ragged@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.
I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.
Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.
Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.
severalkittens@ani.social 2 days ago
I haven’t been able to find a global setting. Afaik, it’s baked into x11? The only way I saw to disable it on forums was totally disabling middle click, which I do not want either
LwL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was able to disable it on KDE somewhere in settings (would try to find it rn but I’m not home), but that was pre-6.1 so I hope it isn’t back. For me it was mainly an issue when trying to pane a view, which depending on the game i played before I’ll try to do by holding middle mouse button. Great fun pasting a random image onto the retro miro board on accident…