bitshiftMar 15

#GNOME v50 will disable pasting via middle-mouse-button by default (as it is an X11ism):

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119

But one can re-enabled it via

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

(phew, was already worried as I am using this quite often)

#opensource

Disable primary-paste by default (!119) · Merge requests · GNOME / gsettings-desktop-schemas · GitLab

This is an X11ism, originally an xsetting 1 which frequently results is in unexpected behavior when people pressing the middle mouse button....

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Show threadMonokaMar 15

@bitshift

II hope @gnome has created a user-friendly switch in the Gnome settings app to enable/disable the pasting via middle-mouse-button. If not, I would like to request this enhancement for the Gnome settings app.

#Gnome

Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 16
@GerryT @bitshift No need, it's been in the @gnome Tweaks UI app for years already: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/115871263647122444
Show threadMonokaMar 16

Thanks @nekohayo , as paste on middle mouse click is a feature widely used by users, including end users (=not developers), this setting should be in the default Gnome settings app.

The reason given why this feature was disabled by default was to protect "some" users that accidentally paste something. The setting in the Gnome settings app is required to protect the users that use this feature, without fiddling with non-default third-party apps like the Tweaks app.

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Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 17
@GerryT as someone who uses that feature myself every day, but also has to do tech support for normal people: no, it is not widely used, and no, it should not be enabled by default. Geeks will find their way to the Tweaks app.
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Show threadMonokaMar 17
@nekohayo I highly value your FLOSS contributions, but I can't follow you here. Paste on middle click has always been a user-facing feature. Users learn what middle mouseclick does, with a manual, google or, try-it out. There was a huge outcry on tech sites about the disabling. However, end users don't visit these sites. With @gnome 50, they will be very annoyed that this feature is "gone". At max, they'll look into settings. No one knows that there is a second unofficial settings app
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Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 17

@GerryT @bitshift You and I are not normal users.

You have not done tech support with normies. Normal everyday people don't use this, and they don't go searching on the Internet why some random secondary clipboard's contents suddenly got inserted somewhere when they misclicked the mousewheel or touchpad; instead they just sit there bewildered or call me. It's just another way the computer can "break" in front of them. @gnome just sets a more reasonable default now.

Show threadbitshift

@nekohayo @GerryT @gnome

> You have not done tech support with normies

Sorry, doesn't hold for me. I run a corp providing IT support + privately supporting "normies" >20y + introduced my mom to #GNOME years ago.

They wouldn't question middle-click behavior as none of them use it intentionally. They'd see it as glitch or learn it (if told). But I will notice if it does not work :)

That said, different views on decluttering make sense, I can enable the setting. Thanks for your #OSS work.

Apr 6 at 12:34amWeb