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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
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.
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!
Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.
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.