Why in the world is GNOME disabling middle click? That feels like such a tiny innocuous change with no real bearing on anything? Like, that just messes up users' workflows that use it for no reason at all, and since GNOME is the default desktop on a lot of distros, this will mess up non-technical users and they'll file bugs. I don't want to deal with this from a distro's perspective. I know you can re-enable the option... *from GNOME tweaks*, which they don't support anymore...

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@justsoup always hated middle click paste (because sometimes i click by accident) and know exactly 0 non-technical users that use it

it's just an x11 quirk that is mostly used by long-time x11 power users, i don't see any issue with disabling it considering there is established copy paste workflow that's way less easy to use by accident

this will make middle click instead be the auto scroll which is a *way* more familiar pattern from pretty much every other mainstream platform ever

@q66 @justsoup yea agreed . like . i literally started using it because i heard this news , i had no clue it was a thing before , and ive been a linux user for more than 10 years now

so like . i can use it if i want , idrc if the default gnome settings disable it lol

@q66 @justsoup like . would i think it would be cooler if gnome had a more proper onboarding where the middle click is explained , and a toggle to enable/disable it ? sure . but likr its whatever its not like this kills middle click paste for who acrually wants it