Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

[Elie Goldman Smith]

Countless people on forums say that middle-mouse pasting is an X11 feature.

This document seems to confirm that it's an X11 feature:
https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html


Please correct me if I'm wrong.


On Friday, July 24, 2020, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 7/23/20 1:19 AM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
>
>> Solution:
>> Middle-mouse pasting would be great as a setting that can be
>> enabled/disabled by 'xset' on the command line.
>>
>> Please let me know if this would be simple to implement.
>>
>
> It would not be, because it is not a X server behavior.  It is simply
> a convention implemented in dozens of toolkits and thousands of
> applications, with no centralized control.
>
> All the X server does is tell the client that button 2 was pressed, and
> everything after that happens client side.
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
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