Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 20:01:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button
> > pasting?
>
> It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning
> it, either forward or backward. Depending on where you're clicking,
> this can have undesired side effects.
>
> Personally, I'm still using a three-button mouse with no wheel. The
> middle button pastes, just as the gods of Unix (or Xerox) intended.
I have both. But the ones with wheels have middle-button emulation set
so that pressing both the left and right buttons has the same effect:
xinput --set-prop "$Id" "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled" 1
Cheers,
David.
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