It would appear that on Apr 21, Helge Hafting did say: > Thanks to all who replied, indicating some sort of local problem. > > I use the middle mouse button when I use the mouse to select, and that is more > common. Especially when copying between programs, when I need the mouse to > switch focus anyway. (Forget alt+tab with more than "a few" windows.)
Whereas my own experience is somewhat different. But then I use separate desktop areas for unrelated open windows so alt+tab only has a few windows to cycle. On the other hand I tend to have several related lyx files open, but that's alt+v so there's no conflict. > When one is used to the ease of middle clicking, reaching for the keyboard > takes way too much time. And not all apps use the same cut/paste keys. Using a > right-click menu is even worse. I've never found middle clicking easy. Even when I once actually had a three button mouse. Now using a 2 button trackball on the PC and the Dell laptop has an oversensitive non-synaptic touchpad that won't let me disable tap to click. I'm always using a keybinding to switch desktop areas just so I can get the laptop's mouse pointer somewhere near where I even might want a click event before switching back to the appropriate desktop area. As it happens, I'm rather dependent on that right click menu. > The hassle of bringing up a menu and locating the right choice when I already > had my > finger on the mouse button that always do the right thing. The only time I don't find it a hassle to use mouse copy/paste techniques is when I'm moving text to/from an xterm (or more likely kde's Konsole which is one of the few kde applications I still use since kde4 chased me away) > I feel pain when I see beginners bringing up cut/paste menus on linux because > they're > used to such cumbersome ways from windows. I use those menus a lot. But not because I got used to it from -retch- windows I've been running from windows since version 3x. Only ever use it when forced to use proprietary software that doesn't run without it. But then that's the beauty of Linux. There are so many different ways to do things that different people with different skills aren't always forced to do things the same way. -- Joe
