I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.
I haven’t been able to find a global setting. Afaik, it’s baked into x11? The only way I saw to disable it on forums was totally disabling middle click, which I do not want either
I was able to disable it on KDE somewhere in settings (would try to find it rn but I’m not home), but that was pre-6.1 so I hope it isn’t back. For me it was mainly an issue when trying to pane a view, which depending on the game i played before I’ll try to do by holding middle mouse button. Great fun pasting a random image onto the retro miro board on accident…
Not sure about other DEs, but it seems likely it’s possible somehow.
If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.
I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.
Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.
Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.
Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?
I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.
I haven’t been able to find a global setting. Afaik, it’s baked into x11? The only way I saw to disable it on forums was totally disabling middle click, which I do not want either
I was able to disable it on KDE somewhere in settings (would try to find it rn but I’m not home), but that was pre-6.1 so I hope it isn’t back. For me it was mainly an issue when trying to pane a view, which depending on the game i played before I’ll try to do by holding middle mouse button. Great fun pasting a random image onto the retro miro board on accident…
Not sure about other DEs, but it seems likely it’s possible somehow.
It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a really weird default. How many users actually want this on, vs don’t care/don’t want it?
If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.
I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.
Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.
Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.