On 11/1/22 15:36, stan via users wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 13:18:52 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
> On 11/1/22 12:55, stan via users wrote:
>> I have a similar experience, except that I used to be able to double
>> click with the left button to select, and paste at the text cursor
>> with the center button, or left button drag to select and paste at
>> the text cursor with the center button in programs like claws-mail
>> and gvim. That hasn't worked for some time. I assumed that it was
>> because of the decreased support for X because of wayland or that
>> the mouse driver was rewritten or there was a security issue. The
>> workarounds are clumsy. The technique still works in the virtual
>> consoles (F1-F6), so something in the gui handling of mouse clicks
>> has changed.
>
> Are you using Wayland or X for the desktop? In Wayland, I just
> tested drag and middle-click in gvim and it worked fine.
X, and with LXDE. I've been meaning to check if wayland now allows
custom keymappings. Maybe time to try gnome or kde again. In X, when
I use gvim it pastes the selected text at the mouse cursor. So, if I'm
editing something and want to grab some phrase from the text above, and
paste it at the text cursor where I am typing, it makes a mess by
pasting it where the mouse cursor is. Same in Claws mail.
That's the normal behaviour for graphical programs for as long as I can
remember. gvim might have been a special case, but I don't use it.