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Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

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Greg Wooledge writes:

> 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 is worth mentioning that the common Windows program to access Linux  
machines over SSH `putty.exe` has the right-click for paste behaviour. I  
gather it might be hard to adjust muscle memory to the middle-mouse-click if  
one switches from Putty to something else.

> 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.

This problem is highly hardware-dependent. I know there are some mice where  
the wheel requires much force to press whereas scrolling happens immediately  
as soon as you touch it. Given that I need both, the middle mouse button as  
well as the wheel function I specifically avoid them when buying and try to  
find a mouse with the opposite behaviour: Easy to click wheel and hard to  
unexpectedly trigger scrolling.

For my uses, I have found the "MadCatz R.A.T.3" to work well (seven years of  
light mouse usage passed). It seems to be superseded by the "R.A.T.4+"  
which has a bunch of more featurs that I probably don't need :)

> 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.

That's also a fine choice iff one can do without the wheel :)

YMMV
Linux-Fan

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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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