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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

KDE for life then?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What would middle click do instead?

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whatever action is bound to it in applications that use it. It's a mouse button like any other. You can scroll a page in Firefox or click-drag across a surface in certain applications. That's actually the most common usage for the middle mouse button.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like that should be still configurable for either action at the OS level and certainly (at least through about:config) in Firefox’s settings. Or are both entities really going to prevent that behavior?

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can't reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal.