On 13/06/2024 12:42, Charlie wrote:
Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why?
Middle click can be configured for touchpads as 2 or 3 fingers tap or as
simultaneous press on both hardware buttons (if they exist), see the
libinput(4) man page and
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/
Desktop environment may provide GUI for configuration.
Perhaps older synaptics driver allowed to treat tap in some corner as
mouse button click.
In its early days wayland did not have primary selection, just
clipboard. Some users and developers hate paste on middle click
considering it insecure. Perhaps there are still wayland implementations
supporting only clipboard.
In xterm you may configure shortcuts for both primary selection and
clipboard copy and paste. Search for copy-selection and insert-selection
in xterm(1). It was discussed in the following thread:
Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim. Tue, 6 Feb 2024
18:38:46 +0100.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/zcjupojxfztxh...@phare.normalesup.org
