Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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I use auto scroll a lot, middle click paste is generally an immediate no for me.

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How did you setup auto scroll? It doesn’t work for me.

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You can’t in most apps but Firefox allows it. It requires an app to specifically enable the behavior instead. It’s terrible.

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How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict? In Firefox I can click-to-paste if the cursor is over an input field and click-to-scroll anywhere else. Never had any problem with this behavior.

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How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict?

Some of us are clumsy.

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That’s not something I thought about. Good thing that you can disable the feature then

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