every time I release the pressed mousewheel, the content of my clipboard is pasted. This leads to some software being unuseable, for example in figma I use the 3rd mouse button to position the canvas, but every time the text of the clipboard is inserted. I can reproduce this on every text field.
I used “sudo libinput debug-events” but it only registers the button press.
“event23 POINTER_BUTTON +3.020s BTN_MIDDLE (274) pressed, seat count: 1”
I also checked the gnome shortcuts, but I could not find anything that would issue this.
Can somebody help me? Is there a log where I can see what happens when pressing the button?
This is feature of Linux (one of most useful by the way). Some DE allow to change this behavior, some don’t. In KDE you can disable this in clipboard settings. Don’t know if it’s possibile in Gnome.
I do not know anything about that program or what it does.
But:
it sounds to me like the sentence should have said:
for example, in Windows environments, in figma I use the 3rd mouse button to position the canvas
Is that a correct assessment?
In Linux, that key/mouse button is traditionally and by default mapped to “paste” the current selection.
It has always been that way - and Wayland adopted it, too.
… you mark text by pressing left and highlighting it, then you paste that highlighted portion somewhere else by middle click
no CTRL+C and CTRL+V copy/paste keyboard sequence needed
… it’s one of these “the little differences” (intended a Pulp Fiction reference here)
With that Gnome tool, you’d disconnect the predefined shortcut - if that is easily possible with that tool -
and assign the middle button press to whatever function you want it to have in your program.
Perhaps you can use that particular programs preferences to assign that key press to the function you want it to have there?
I do not know.
… or you’d have to change your habit and workflow when switching in between Windows and Linux environments …
Hi, fist of all thank you all for helping me out, I am amazed that still exists.
Figma is an online application, I use it in the browser. So it might be designed with Windows / MacOS users in mind.
Yes, I restarted and everything.
if I issue the command, it says “false”
it still pastes, in every application I tried. So seems to be global
I can use InputRemapper to map for example BTN_Middle to KEY_A. That works. But then I cannot move the canvas in Firefox, because it does not get the BTN_Middle event. So I do not know how I can issue a BTN_Middle press without issueing the paste.
As you are using Firefox, you can easily disable middle-mouse pasting by opening the about:config page, searching for “paste”, and changing the middlemouse.paste value from “true” to “false”:
(intended a Pulp Fiction reference here)
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