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On 11/20/2015 09:34 AM, Ian Malone
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I just did a quick walk around our office of approximately 70 people and every mouse had 3 buttons.On 12 November 2015 at 14:59, Ray Strode <halfline@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I've been testing Wayland myself since around the F22 time period, but "middle click paste" and the occasional odd bug keep annoying me enough to go back to X. Can you elaborate on the plans for supporting middle click to paste, or is it considered a relic of a bygone era and I should try to unlearn?Plans for middle-click paste are tracked here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelectionThis would actually be quite a productivity killer for me, not just the lack of middle-button paste[1], but also removing a separate copy-buffer. It is seriously useful to be able to carry around multiple pieces of text, particularly if you're going to need to keeping one and change the other (or working on two things at once). [1] Apparently middle mouse buttons are rare. I'm in an office surrounded by them and them only computers I've used without one for roughly the past decade are my old laptop (now moved on, but had emulated middle click, maybe the wayland developers were unaware of this too), and other people's mac laptops, which have their own 'easter egg' combinations of one, two, three(?) finger clicks and drags. As far as the middle button paste being an "easter-egg" it was documented in the "X Windows Systems User Guide" on page 97 way back in 1990. --
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