On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 20:01:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > > pasting? > > It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning > it, either forward or backward. Depending on where you're clicking, > this can have undesired side effects. > > Personally, I'm still using a three-button mouse with no wheel. The > middle button pastes, just as the gods of Unix (or Xerox) intended.
I have both. But the ones with wheels have middle-button emulation set so that pressing both the left and right buttons has the same effect: xinput --set-prop "$Id" "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled" 1 Cheers, David.