On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 3:06 PM Elie Goldman Smith <elie.goldman.sm...@gmail.com> 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, it does. This document confirms that middle mouse button click events are X11 features. Pay attention to this part: # So how do I implement this? # # middle button paste, if implemented | Retrieve and insert PRIMARY selection. Pay attention to the "if implemented" part. If not implemented, this does nothing. An X client chooses to implement whatever events it wants. If it chooses to implement the middle button as a paste button, it then proceeds to retrieve and insert the PRIMARY selection from the server. If it chooses not to do so, nothing happens. The X server has absolutely nothing to do, whatsoever. The X server's only responsibility is to forward mouse button events to the client, to do whatever it wants with it. If the client chooses to implement the middle button as a paste operation, that's the client's choice. Not the server's. Feel free to read https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html at your leisure, for all the details. > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > On Friday, July 24, 2020, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 convention implemented in dozens of toolkits and thousands of >> applications, with no centralized control. >> >> All the X server does is tell the client that button 2 was pressed, and >> everything after that happens client side. >> >> -- >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com >> Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
