Who thought middle click paste would be a good idea?
I personally think it is really annoying, more so when I can not reliably disable it as a user (easily, without terminal magic).
Are there even any Benefits to that "feature"? why do most #linux distros enable this?
#middle_click_paste #gnome #kde
What do you think of middle click paste?
- It is really annoying, always do it by accident (28%, 51 votes)
- It is useful sometimes but also annoying (14%, 25 votes)
- It is helpful for my use case (23%, 41 votes)
- It is very useful and everyone should use it (34%, 61 votes)
VBB♈️
in reply to treefit • • •treefit
in reply to VBB♈️ • • •@VBB for me it unfortunately clashed with scrolling on touchpads multiple times already, I think on an actually clicking mouse wheel it's harder to trigger by accident, though.
So I scrolled in a text editor and if I was too slow sometimes it pasted my clipboard into it.😕
VBB♈️
in reply to treefit • • •Darryl 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 ⸸
in reply to treefit • • •It is not just a paste function. It is paste from a totally different clipboard, which is whatever you last selected with the mouse.
Instead of select; CNTL-c; click; CNTL-v, it is select; click. It can be a significant time saver. And you never lose what is in your actual clipboard so you can still do CNTL-c/v at the same time.
The nice thing about the middle button is it is not one that is typically used for much else so it is unlikely you will have programmed yourself to use it in a conflicting way.
Corb_The_Lesser
in reply to treefit • • •slembcke
in reply to treefit • • •I thought it was *really* annoying/unexpected when I first encountered it, but it grew on me I guess. I don't have a list of favorite features, but it's probably top 5. Honestly probably my most _used_ feature since I use it 100 times a day.
Is your frustration with buttons or tap input on a trackpad? 3 decades on and I've _never_ gotten used to tap on the other hand. Just constant accidental clicks. -_-
vulp
in reply to treefit • • •Łukasz Horodecki
in reply to treefit • • •Ryan 🐧
in reply to treefit • • •This is the main feature that I miss when I have to use my work laptop (Windows).
Middle click paste saves me SOOO much time, but I can see how it can be a frustrating feature.
Nicomede
in reply to treefit • • •Inga stands with Ukraine
in reply to treefit • • •It's super annoying that when I press and hold the middle button but do not move the trackpoint, it inserts the text from the buffer (which also often means that the viewport jumps to the focused field / last line of the terminal where it inserted this text)
treefit
in reply to Inga stands with Ukraine • • •