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, and people read it. > > It's more likely than you think. > > For what it's worth, I have been scrolling through documents for decades > and never once pasted anything by accident with the middle click. It > sounds like your mouse is faulty as every mouse I have ever used has > required considerable effort to actuate the middle mouse button, to the > point that I have once disassembled my mouse and replaced the > microswitch in it for the mouse wheel to make it easier to press.
It's not *that* uncommon to have a mouse that middle-clicks while scrolling. Don't ask me for model numbers but I've seen the odd bug report over the years about it and it's not always a worn-out switch. > > This isn't simply a matter of mouse scroll wheels that click too > > easily. Laptop touchpads are known to paste accidentally too. > > I've also used a touchpad for a long time and never managed to get it > to paste anything. I didn't even know I could get it to emit a > middle-click! Three-finger tap and (depending on configuration) a click with three fingers on the touchpad or a click in the middle button area on the bottom or a click with left and right button (or in button areas) simultaneously. The old synaptics driver defaulted to 2-finger tap being the middle click. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
