Gnome and Mozilla want to disable middle-click paste
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2026 3:47 am
This is a like troll site, for all things that piss me off, but:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fir ... lick-Paste
It's not just the "middle click" that will be disabled, but eventually the whole paradigm of highlighting text to copy it to that clipboard. We all know what happens to things that developers disable, and leave an obscure variable to toggle back on. Eventual removal when they can say "not many users want this feature", or it gets broken and then removed.
Fuck right off... how about, people who don't like that very old X convention (since before Linux/XFree86, even?) can crawl back up their own arseholes, to Windows.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fir ... lick-Paste
That's a near unintelligible crock of shit.Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default.
""This is an X11ism, originally an xsetting 1 which frequently results is in unexpected behavior when people pressing the middle mouse button.
It's commonly used for other actions or more often getting clicked by accident, and dumping your entire clipboard while having no indication that this will happen is nothing short of a dumpster fire.
People that know about this functionality and really love this functionality can easily override the setting."
It's not just the "middle click" that will be disabled, but eventually the whole paradigm of highlighting text to copy it to that clipboard. We all know what happens to things that developers disable, and leave an obscure variable to toggle back on. Eventual removal when they can say "not many users want this feature", or it gets broken and then removed.
Fuck right off... how about, people who don't like that very old X convention (since before Linux/XFree86, even?) can crawl back up their own arseholes, to Windows.