GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 706603
Initial state of "Middle-click Paste" setting is incorrect (On)
Last modified: 2013-08-23 07:26:23 UTC
I built gnome-tweak-tool 3.9.90 and ran it. The new 'Middle-click Paste' setting in Keyboard and Mouse showed as 'On', even though it was definitely 'Off', as is the gnome-settings-daemon default now. When I set it to Off then back to On, middle-click pasting was actually enabled (yay).
For the record, as there was some confusion: the middle-click-off change was reverted from GTK+ on August 2nd, but that was only to move it to gnome-settings-daemon: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=1c63d295ec25cbb768fe58a7db43aa44c38c7a6e (gtk+ revert) https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=696e04d41a485f84870a98c85b819979928b69e9 (gsd add) There's no indication I'm aware of that it's going to be reverted from g-s-d. The bug report - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665193 - has some plaintive arguments, but no indication that maintainers are thinking of changing course. So, it seems like 'off' is pretty set-in-stone as the upstream default at present.
Created attachment 252779 [details] [review] Upstream middle click paste defaults to false see: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=696e04d41a485f84870a98c85b819979928b69e9 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c?#n347
Attachment 252779 [details] pushed as 0ea6421 - Upstream middle click paste defaults to false
Sigh, it's whack-a-mole day: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=e204eddcdbfb9f8d722355fab1643330c7d10c25 so matthias decided to actually revert this upstream. we're back to middle-click enabled being the default, so you can flip g-t-t back for the next upstream g-s-d build...
Thanks for the update. Reverted in g-t-t so it agrees with the defaults.