MATE: Middlemouse paste setting ignored? Or what am I missing?

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MATE: Middlemouse paste setting ignored? Or what am I missing?

Post by kevso »

Hey everyone :-)

Mint 20.3, MATE 1.26.0 user here...

I love that there's an option in Mint MATE settings, "Enable middlemouse paste," because I accidentally do this sometimes, often without realizing it until later. I therefore have it disabled/unchecked.

But regardless, middlemouse pasting happens anyway in several programs, including Firefox, Chromium, and VSCodium. Firefox has its own "middlemouse.paste" in about:config, but the other two don't seem to have settings for this that I could find.

It doesn't happen (even if enabled) in GIMP and xed.

So...what exactly does this setting do? Am I missing something that's required to make it have an effect? I've tried also unchecking the "Emulate middle..." just above it.

Just in case the setting isn't "live," before testing, I've been closing the mouse settings dialog after any change.

Thank you for any help! :-)
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Re: MATE: Middlemouse paste setting ignored? Or what am I missing?

Post by kevso »

Well, https://askubuntu.com/a/55988/161034 works, anyway. Maybe that's what the GUI option should do underneath, since whatever it does doesn't work particularly well otherwise. ;)
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