[Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

[John Abreau]

That's odd. I use middle-mouse paste of text all the time, and firefox has
never had trouble with it.

I did have trouble when they deprecated middle-mouse pasting of URIs into
the firefox canvas to browse to that URI, but it turns out it's just a
setting that can be changed under about:config.

The setting is middlemouse.contentLoadURL, and a number of years ago they
changed the default from "true" to "false". To re-enable the feature, just
toggle it back to "true".

I basically only notice this when I build a new machine.


On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 2/20/24 11:15, Daniel C. wrote:
> > Which corner exactly have we coded ourselves into?
>
> That's what /I/ was wondering. It recounted some history, and then said
> that Wayland doesn't do things as files. Sounds like the author had a
> title, was proud s/he knew who originally said that history-repeating
> cliché, pounded away for a few paragraphs, and then ran out of steam.
>
> -kb
>
> P.S. Does X do things as files? I've only ever been a user, occasionally
> tunneling X windows over ssh tunnels, and more recently pissed that
> Firefox doesn't participate in the middle-mouse paste of X. (I filed a
> notch in the edge of my laptop so I can click the middle of the track
> pad by touch. Otherwise it takes a flashlight to find the faint grey on
> black line that marks the middle.)
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