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Bug 536271 - Option to disable pasting with third mouse button.
Option to disable pasting with third mouse button.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 665193
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Mouse
2.25.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-02 15:35 UTC by Marek
Modified: 2012-05-04 19:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Marek 2008-06-02 15:35:41 UTC 
Many currently available mouses have a wheel and third mouse button stuck together, so sometimes on very sensitive mouses, while users scroll document with a wheel, it also pastes current clipboard - it may affect various users: those who use firefox can simply disable this at about:config page within firefox, but for example developers can get a mess within their code while they are scrolling their documents (it's an issue for me in Eclipse at the moment).

Other information:
Comment 1 Janne Torvela 2009-02-06 21:17:45 UTC 
A de-facto stardard outside of the unix world for the middle mouse button seems to be auto-scroll/pan/zoom or pan/rotate/zoom in 3D applications, and not paste. 

In usability point of view, in my opinion, it creates less confusion if the wheel&button does tasks that are related to scrolling or panning. One physical button, one group of related tasks.
Comment 2 Gerd Kohlberger 2009-02-06 22:03:36 UTC 
This functionality isn't handled by mousetweaks. I'm moving the bug to control-center
Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2011-07-22 11:16:25 UTC 
I would even go as far as to disable middle mouse paste without exposing any GUI option for this. Middle mouse button pasting sounds like a great shortcut, yet it creates real issues due to it existing in addition to the standard ctrl+v buffer. How many times have you pasted something inappropriate on IRC when you mixed up the two buffers?

This comes down to being the same sort of power tool as focus follows mouse. A hardcore unix person will shout and scream if we try to remove it, yet it is flawed. We should remove it and use a one, predictable way of copy & pasting.
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2012-05-04 19:30:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 665193 ***