>But you're probably a troll, because a real Linux user would actually make a useful complaint.
I thought it was clear enough that my complaint is that there's no button in any of the settings screens to disable middle-click paste. I've searched through the settings menus of both Ubuntu and Fedora. I've searched before for solutions, and I remember the solutions mostly looked like "here's a patch for GTK v2, you'll have to compile it yourself, replace your distro's packages for GTK, cut yourself off from updates, it won't work for programs that don't use GTK v2 specifically or your distro's packaged version of it, and you're never going to know if the random issues that happen later are because you compiled the wrong version of GTK or missed some distro-specific patches". I've done that sort of thing before, and it's pain. I don't have the mental bandwidth for that any more. I think it's more than fair for me to criticize a piece of software for not having a toggle exposed for a strange UI feature that's so easy to accidentally misuse.
It's been a while since I've looked harder than checking the settings menu for a solution to this, so I decided to search again, and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/4507/how-do-i-disable-middle.... All but one of the solutions are terrible. There's people suggesting compiling and replacing distro packages, there's people suggesting globally rebinding middle-click (some in ways that don't even persist), and there's even a suggestion for having a script run 24/7 which clears the clipboard out twice a second. There is a decent solution involving a gsettings command. The setting persists, which is great, though it only works with programs using GTK.
I thought it was clear enough that my complaint is that there's no button in any of the settings screens to disable middle-click paste. I've searched through the settings menus of both Ubuntu and Fedora. I've searched before for solutions, and I remember the solutions mostly looked like "here's a patch for GTK v2, you'll have to compile it yourself, replace your distro's packages for GTK, cut yourself off from updates, it won't work for programs that don't use GTK v2 specifically or your distro's packaged version of it, and you're never going to know if the random issues that happen later are because you compiled the wrong version of GTK or missed some distro-specific patches". I've done that sort of thing before, and it's pain. I don't have the mental bandwidth for that any more. I think it's more than fair for me to criticize a piece of software for not having a toggle exposed for a strange UI feature that's so easy to accidentally misuse.
It's been a while since I've looked harder than checking the settings menu for a solution to this, so I decided to search again, and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/4507/how-do-i-disable-middle.... All but one of the solutions are terrible. There's people suggesting compiling and replacing distro packages, there's people suggesting globally rebinding middle-click (some in ways that don't even persist), and there's even a suggestion for having a script run 24/7 which clears the clipboard out twice a second. There is a decent solution involving a gsettings command. The setting persists, which is great, though it only works with programs using GTK.