Mastodawn

Hot take: good riddance. I dislike the middle click thing. Trips me up all the time as someone who accidentally clicks it when scrolling.

I think the right move is to make this (undoubtedly useful to some) behavior opt-in, not opt-out.

A lot of the gripes I see are just people being mad because GNOME makes choices they don't like. I don't understand why people write like this about GNOME, if you don't like it don't use it, your emotions make you look petty, etc etc.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Opinion: Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'

The Register

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Inaction Figure Jan 10

@vkc

I use middle-click-paste all the time, and I would miss it. As you say, this is not a life-or-death thing. We just gotta have our drama.

I use Plasma, so, A) This conversation doesn’t apply to me, B) There certainly would be (or maybe already is) an option to turn it on/off.

As an aside, I flip off my work laptop frequently. It’s Windows 11, and it’s hateful.

#Linux #Plasma

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Inaction Figure

I just checked: Plasma DOES already have an option to turn middle-click-paste on and off, in Settings, under "General Behavior".

Linux is awesome.

#Linux #KDE #kdeplasma #Plasma #LinuxIsAwesome