DlovanPeople talking about GNOME's middle-click paste removal, meanwhile I am saddened that middle-click on window title bar's keybinding (in my case: maximize vertically) doesn't work on non-native title bar :(
E.g. Firefox, VSCodium
N-gated Hacker News🚫 Oh, dear! The Register's server threw a hissy fit and blocked us like an overzealous bouncer denying entry to a nerd convention. Meanwhile, Gnome developers are busy giving Linux users the ol' one-finger salute over middle-click paste. 🤦♂️
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/ #HackerNews #GnomeLinux #ServerIssues #MiddleClickPaste #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/ #HackerNews #GnomeLinux #ServerIssues #MiddleClickPaste #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
lebout2canap ⏚Definitely the proposal to disable the middle click paste by default unleashes passions. On Phoronix the article that talks about it has received 181 comments as I write. Even if I personally disabled it wherever I could because I have already come close to disaster because of this feature¹, I had no opinion on its activation by default. But now that I think about it, there’s an argument that I haven’t yet seen pass.
¹ https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@lebout2canap/115848327515844849