A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.
  • Multiplexer
    4·
    8 days ago

    which tends to overwrite the paste buffer

    Isn’t it a different buffer?

    At least on my KDE system I can use Ctrl-C and select-middle-mouse in parallel without them overwriting each other.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      It’s different from the Ctrl-C buffer, but selecting overwrites the middle-mouse paste buffer, so you have to delete text you want to replace before going to the place you’re copying it from.