On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:36:42 -0400
Adam Jackson wrote:
> (accidentally sent to just sam initially, whoops)
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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sam Varshavchik
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:30 AM Böszörményi Zoltán
> > wrote:
> > > 2020. 07. 30. 21:20 keltezéssel, Dennis Clarke írta:
At Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:16:14 -0400 Sam Varshavchik
wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:37 PM Adam Jackson wrote:
> >
> > (accidentally sent to just sam initially, whoops)
>
> Yes, and just had a two minute look at it -- this just seems to
> disable pasting of the PRIMARY selection, completel
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:37 PM Adam Jackson wrote:
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> (accidentally sent to just sam initially, whoops)
Yes, and just had a two minute look at it -- this just seems to
disable pasting of the PRIMARY selection, completely.
I suppose that's one way to disable the middle mouse click. As well as
t
(accidentally sent to just sam initially, whoops)
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sam Varshavchik
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:30 AM Böszörményi Zoltán wrote:
> > 2020. 07. 30. 21:20 keltezéssel, Dennis Clarke írta:
> > > On 7/30/20 6:39 PM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> > >> Countless peopl
2020. 07. 30. 21:20 keltezéssel, Dennis Clarke írta:
On 7/30/20 6:39 PM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
Countless people on forums ...
Also they are not the source code nor would I rely on what countless
people say on just about any matter whatsoever. I am not sure when
the horrific "popular is co
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:30 AM Böszörményi Zoltán wrote:
>
> 2020. 07. 30. 21:20 keltezéssel, Dennis Clarke írta:
> > On 7/30/20 6:39 PM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> >> Countless people on forums ...
> >
> > Also they are not the source code nor would I rely on what countless
> > people say on ju
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:39:04 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith
said:
> 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.
It's an e
On 7/30/20 6:39 PM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> Countless people on forums ...
Also they are not the source code nor would I rely on what countless
people say on just about any matter whatsoever. I am not sure when
the horrific "popular is correct" logic became almost defacto pure
truth but I rej
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 3:06 PM Elie Goldman Smith
wrote:
> Countless people on forums say that middle-mouse pasting is an X11 feature.
"X11" is not the same thing as an "X server".
> This document seems to confirm that it's an X11 feature:
> https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Yes, i
At Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:39:04 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith
wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.
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
wrote:
> On 7/23/20 1:19 AM, Elie Goldm
X11 is a much larger system than just the X server. As that web page notes,
this is from the "X11R6 Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual", which
documents the conventions for X clients to communicate with each other, not
the X server itself.
-Alan Coopersmith- ala
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 01:17:16AM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > Say for example a user is writing a document, scrolling through it,
> > and accidentally pastes text without knowing it.
> > The pasted text might contain sensitive/private information.
> > The user submits the document somewhere, an
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400
Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> X.Org, to whom it may concern:
>
> I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an
> optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior.
>
> The rationale is simple:
> Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to user
At Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:17:16 +1000 Adam Nielsen wrote:
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> > I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an
> > optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior.
>
> Where are you seeing this Xorg behaviour? If I run "xev" and click the
> middle mouse button, I only see a "
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400 Elie Goldman Smith
said:
this has nothing to do with xorg - each toolkit and/or client app implements
this. xorg/xlibs just provide the mechanisms. they all do this because in x it
*IS* expected behaviour and has been expected to work this way for 30 years or
so
> I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an
> optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior.
Where are you seeing this Xorg behaviour? If I run "xev" and click the
middle mouse button, I only see a "button 2 pressed" event, I don't see
any events relating to the clipbo
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
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:19:16 -0400
Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> X.Org, to whom it may concern:
>
> I'm writing to suggest that Xorg's middle-mouse pasting should be an
> optional feature, not an unchangeable behavior.
>
> The rationale is simple:
> Middle-mouse pasting is only beneficial to user
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