Re:Firefox 75.0
by mkl on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:48AM
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Manually highlighted text going into the selection buffer for quick middle-click pasting is great, and makes me much more efficient at manipulating text on Linux than Windows. If you don't like it, you can just ignore it: don't click the middle mouse button on text areas. The selection buffer is independent of the explicit cut-copy-paste clipboard (if you have some program running that's trying to synchronise them, you can turn that off).
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Yeah yeah, it's totally a preference thing. I can't ignore it, because I use the scroll wheel a _ton_ (have you ever used the middle-click autoscroll thing in Firefox? it rules). So sometimes the scroll wheel gets accidentally clicked and I paste some junk into the middle of the document I happen to be scrolling through. I'd much rather have a strong, confirmative action like pressing Ctrl-C and V to interact with the clipboard, rather than overloaded functions like highlighting text or interacting with the scroll wheel. It sucks, but after 10+ years on X11, I've mostly gotten used to it.
Re:Firefox 75.0
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:38PM
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This feature predates scrollwheels multiplexed with middle buttons. You could source a scrollpoint mouse to split the behavior. The "modern" ones with the large saddle are a nicer experience than the laptop erasers.
Maybe get a better mouse? My scroolwheel is harder to click than other buttons.
Or you could always disable the middle button:
xinput set-button-map <input> 1 0 3i have a habit of selecting text i'm reading. auto-copy into the clipboard totally wrecks my productivity.