GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

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• severalkittens@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This has been such a weird annoyance for me. Since I primarily use a Thinkpad with a track point, I would find myself middle click pasting randomly while scrolling through code or whatever

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  • running_ragged@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’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.

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    • severalkittens@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I understand and kinda agree with the reasoning, even though I love middle click paste. At least they’re saying there’ll be a setting to re enable it, the first thing I do on a fresh install is install Tweaks/Refine to rebind caps lock as ctrl so clicking an extra toggle wouldn’t be the biggest issue.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It really is such bullshit.

  Did they also disable ctrl+q to immediately quit Firefox? Right next to ctrl+w, which people use all the time?

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• lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s odd to call middle click to paste a dumpster fire when the Windows console will use a modal behaviour for right click - by default it’s paste (and there are certain situations where you can only reliably paste with right click), unless you have text selected, then copy that text (and deselect it). By comparison middle click is pretty damn predictable.

  I wonder however how much of the complaints come from laptop users with oversized touchpads who are frustrated by accidental clicks while typing. But it’d be odd that only middle click is singled out then.

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Microsoft and GNOME don't seem like great examples to imitate when it comes to UI, but whatever, I can change the default.

  So that's fine, unless they hide it in about:config somewhere, wait a year or two, find out from telemetry that not many users ever discover it, and then remove it completely because they still think that having fewer options is better. If they do that yet again, with this feature in particular, and if the librewolf people don't fix it, I might just give up web browsers and go back to using telnet to port 80.

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