Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?
Date	2022-01-08 04:10 +0100
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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.

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downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 19:30 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 19:40 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 20:50 +0100
      Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 04:10 +0100
        Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2022-01-08 08:00 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 20:50 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 21:20 +0100
      Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2022-01-08 00:20 +0100
        Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-08 02:10 +0100
          Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 04:10 +0100
          Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-01-08 13:20 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-07 21:40 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-07 21:20 +0100

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