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Windows-like middle-mouse button behaviour?
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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Call it a reverse curb-cut effect, I first discovered it when I was a teenager, and back then I'd sometimes use it out of laziness or because it was quicker (ah how I miss being young and immune to pain)
Then when time happened and I started having arthritis flareups, it was there to help me, and I was like "heck, that's a neat thing for accessibility"
i've come to this in the opposite direction as you. when i switched to linux full time; that middle mouse button wasn't so ubiquitously set as you've described it (none of the windows systems i've owned had it); but the middle mouse button on linux has been ubiquitously set as a 2nd clipboard since the 1970's.
i've grown so accustomed that the middle mouse button gives me a second copy/paste that i had trouble with it when i bought my first linux laptop and the built-in kde decided to mimic that window's scroll just like you described it and i had to learn how to turn it off. lol