On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:37 PM Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> 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, completely. I suppose that's one way to disable the middle mouse click. As well as the "Paste" option from most applications' "Edit" menu, and/or the equivalent keyboard combination. I suppose that this is one way to fix the problem. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sam Varshavchik > <sam.varshavc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:30 AM Böszörményi Zoltán <zbos...@pr.hu> 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 just about any matter whatsoever. I am not sure when > > > > the horrific "popular is correct" logic became almost defacto pure > > > > truth but I reject it. I am certain I am not alone but I also do not > > > > have a mathematical proof handy to refute the "popular is correct" > > > > notion. At least not yet. > > > > > > Let me suggest an analogue / convergent notion, which is also popular > > > among engineers: "ten billion flies can't be wrong. let's eat sh*t" > > > I am not sure this refutes the "popular is correct" logic but it > > > certainly puts things into perspective. > > > > That's somewhat besides the point. The point is that the server has > > absolutely no control over this functionality. Anyone who actually > > knows and understands X11 (and not some uncounted number of people in > > some mysterious forums) will know that. > > > > If someone believes otherwise, they are free to download the source to > > the Xorg server, make whatever the change they believe will adjust > > that behavior, and prove everyone else wrong. > > Fine, I'm feeling contrarian: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/snippets/1127 > > The server _absolutely_ has control over this. The value of the > PRIMARY property, from the requesting client's perspective, is > whatever the server says it is. There's no reason the server needs to > tell you the truth. I'm pretty sure you could craft selinux policy to > do this and not even need to patch your server. > > The point is: opinions about this are not universal. PRIMARY's > behaviour is so thoroughly baked into both client software and a > non-trivial subset of user expectation that anyone saying "obviously > it should be turned off" is projecting. Likewise anyone who cut their > teeth on a sun3 and thinks UI design was perfected with the Athena > widget set is intentionally ignoring the absolutely massive > popularization of access to computing since 1992. > > Nobody needs a manifesto about this. If you want to improve the world > here the quantity of code needed is really quite small. I would like > to think the xorg developers are friendly and approachable enough that > people would feel comfortable asking how to make these kinds of > changes and where to start hacking. We've done tremendous amounts of > work over the last 15-odd years to eliminate the irrelevant code and > make what's left pleasant to work on. Please don't make me feel like > that's been wasted effort. > > - ajax > > _______________________________________________ > 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
