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Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long
An anonymous reader writes "Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed from next GNOME version." I hope that "we'll defer this change until the next cycle" also means that it's getting re-thought, rather than just delayed.
I hope that "we'll defer this change until the next cycle" also means that it's getting re-thought, rather than just delayed.
If you have any hope of that, you've obviously not actually used Gnome for any length of time. Considering their users is not something that Gnome designers seem to have any desire to do.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
They're breaking Gnome, not Linux. The nice thing about Linux is that you can configure everything exactly how you want it. Maybe try MATE?
which is totally what she said
Looks like you just comment out one line. The difficult part will be recompiling.
They're breaking Gnome, not Linux. The nice thing about Linux is that you can configure everything exactly how you want it. Maybe try MATE?
Yeah, I know Gnome isn't all of Linux, but it has a lot of influence and a lot of popular programs are tied into the infrastructure. This is why so many programs seem to have forgotten the concept of cwd recently.
Other than that, I'll stick with FVWM.
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From that link:
The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus (such as word definitions, sharing, etc.)
This is more "break the desktop in favor of tablet behavior" stupidity.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Let me guess: You have never used it.
This feature is so mind-boggingly *convenient* I really don't know how to work without it.
No, using ^C ^V is not an alternative – I use *both*, because it gives me *two* clipboards to work with.
No way, having options is the KDE way.
By the way, pasting is not the default function of the middle button on KDE nowadays. (I just can't remember what it was as I changed it as soon as I noticed that misbehavior.)
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
If you want gtk, you also have two more options, Cinnamon and MATE. I actually really fell in love with MATE (GNOME2 continued and being slowly rewritten, optimized and decrapped), it's more polished *and* leaner + faster than e.g. XFCE.
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Actually Apple OSX Terminal.app has middle-click paste... Oh, joy!
But Microsoft gets to force users down the path of "improvement" by discontinuing security updates for old versions, as is about to happen to XP users in the spring. And it's not so much about the home users as it is the organizations that have thousands of seats... ka-ching! As this started out about the middle mouse button I would be remiss if I did not share this little tool I have used for years to give Windows a ton of mouse control and options:
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
That thing has layer (I think of them as profiles) support so you can have five custom mouse configs all stored and ready at the... yes... click of a mouse. Very handy.
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I switched to MATE and have a fully functional desktop again.
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.
No, the mentality prevalent in GNOME is pretty much breaking the OS and other upstream projects they touch as well. Perhaps not the kernel proper, since those devs are hardcore, but that's not all we mean when we say "linux" these days. It's probably not GNOME's "fault" as much as that's just where things tend to come to a head; it's a hotspot of non-unix-like inclinations.
(I say this after going through huge trouble to uncouple JACK from the display system/DBUS and restore it to it's proper place as a daemon. Unfortunately this gets harder every year because contributers to projects like JACK seem to more and more often view everything through the desktop lens and fail to realize that on a UNIX-like system securing a soundcard with a few DRM/SHM regions for shared use by the system and multiple users should be childsplay.)
Someone had to do it.
Shocking, I know, but all scroll wheel mice are three button mice. If you click down on that scroll wheel instead of scrolling it, you get the third button click.
If only "common" sense was actually that common...
This is why you should be using KDE, not Gnome. In KDE, you have an applet (it's part of the standard build) called "Klipper"; it's a LIFO buffer of everything you Ctrl-C or highlight. You can then click on the scissors icon in your tool tray to look at the buffer and select something from it, which can then be pasted with ctrl-V or middle-click. The default buffer size is 10 entries, but that can be manually set to whatever value you like.