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    I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    middle mouse click is like magic, but CTRL-SHIFT-C/V usually works

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I don't want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

    Then change the keyboard shortcuts of your terminal so that it does that. If you can't, then switch to a terminal that lets you change the keyboard shortcuts.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    I don't want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.

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    Lol jokes aside, like they said above just add a shift and you're good. Ctrl+shift+c and Ctrl+shift+v a'cut'a a'nna pasta jus'sa fine! Muah!

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

    Well, yes. But also that only addresses half my comment. I suppose it's fair since my own comment only addressed half of the previous comment.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

    Ah, I was so fixated on the "pasta" joke, you're right, I missed the other thing! Yeah, I can understand you missing that auto scroll feature.

    From what I can tell, it doesn't come as easily as it should natively across all applications, although it appears Firefox has this functionality built in. I found a forum post here from not too long ago. Does this help in your case? :)

    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=263528

    Edit:

    And here, some folks are discussing a scripty way to do it system-wide. YMMV it sounds like, and I'm honestly surprised this isn't just a tick-box feature by now.

    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=441445

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

    That second link looks promising, it's more recent than last time I looked into it. Thank you.

    Also, I've been doing the pasta joke for so long that I forget it's a bit. "paste" gets autocorrected in my brain to be "pasta".

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

    Has someone not made this a thing for the terminal?