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Windows-like middle-mouse button behaviour? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.

This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.

But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I'm wondering if there's a way to recreate this behaviour on it.

I'm on KDE Plasma.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

...but then you're losing quick copy and paste.

Select text then middle click on the window you want to paste it. No keys. Select and a single click.

Of course, if you have more than three mouse buttons you can do both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't use the quick copy and paste on my Thinkpad because it's so easy to accidentally trigger. I use it more often on my desktop, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Eh?

I don't paste things as often as I scroll. Plus, my brain associates copying and pasting with the keyboard commands, from 20+ years of doing -- That.

Edit-to-answer-your-edit: My mouse has 7 buttons, I'm golden.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting. I somehow rewired my brain when I switched to Linux and now I'm constantly annoyed when middle click doesn't paste.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's been a wonderful X-Windows feature on UNIX systems for ages, which Linux inherited. Select and middle mouse button paste is so ingrained in me, I can't function without it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

After moving from windows to Linux I found myself accidentally press ing middle click and pasting when scrolling a lot. And I was scrolling a lot because I didn't have the middle-click-drag scroll feature. I ended up disabling middle click paste.