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> I've tried to disable but none of the methods I’ve seen have worked You can fix this in the latest working firefox version with `about:config > middlemouse.p

by a1369209993 3y ago

> I've tried to disable but none of the methods I’ve seen have worked You can fix this in the latest working firefox version with `about:config > middlemouse.paste = false` (I found this by browsing through about:config, so I'm not sure if it's decumented anywhere), but I'm not sure if that still works in the enshittified versions. (It doesn't prevent selected text from being middle-pasted into other applications, but all my other disrupted-by-paste applications explicitly don't support middle-click-to-paste (in several cases because I deliberately wrote them that way), so I haven't gotten around to fixing that part yet.)

snailmailman 3y ago
Yeah I’ve got it disabled in Firefox. And now that I’m looking into it more I’m seeing an option in VSCode, which is the other main place I keep pasting when trying to scroll. But this “feature” is enabled globally across XServer and is so deeply engrained that there is no global off switch. I must find workarounds for every application in order to make my middle mouse click function as I would expect. For an OS where everything else is so customizable this baffles me. I so frequently encounter problems where I proofread something (or my compiler finds it for me) and I find weird words or sentence fragments that I inserted on accident while navigating a document.
- suby 3y ago
  Agreed, I had a hell of a time switching to Linux in part due to the difficulty in disabling this feature everywhere. I simply hate it and do not want it. It doesn't bother me if other people like it, it doesn't even bother me if it's on by default, but why is it nearly impossible to disable? It's baffling. We're having a conversation in this thread about whether or not the feature is good, but it shouldn't matter. People who like the behavior and people who don't should be able to live side by side, without one affecting the other. The issue is that the feature should not be forced.

snailmailman 3y ago

Yeah I’ve got it disabled in Firefox. And now that I’m looking into it more I’m seeing an option in VSCode, which is the other main place I keep pasting when trying to scroll. But this “feature” is enabled globally across XServer and is so deeply engrained that there is no global off switch. I must find workarounds for every application in order to make my middle mouse click function as I would expect. For an OS where everything else is so customizable this baffles me. I so frequently encounter problems where I proofread something (or my compiler finds it for me) and I find weird words or sentence fragments that I inserted on accident while navigating a document.

suby 3y ago
Agreed, I had a hell of a time switching to Linux in part due to the difficulty in disabling this feature everywhere. I simply hate it and do not want it. It doesn't bother me if other people like it, it doesn't even bother me if it's on by default, but why is it nearly impossible to disable? It's baffling. We're having a conversation in this thread about whether or not the feature is good, but it shouldn't matter. People who like the behavior and people who don't should be able to live side by side, without one affecting the other. The issue is that the feature should not be forced.