For me a quick web search turned up plenty of posts from people complaining about the desktop environment provided way of disabling it not working. Most of them had no replies. Others had tone-deaf replies suggesting to turn it off using the option they said wasn’t working. And finally a few suggested to run a variety of shady scripts that mess with the guts of the system with no way of undoing the if they break something.
And I’m so happy for you that it works for the games you play.
Edit:
Actual solution found:
After a much deeper search, I’ve found out that buried in there was the actual answer I was looking for: The Linux version of Firefox is independently applying a middle click paste on its own regardless of whether you’ve had it disabled in your desktop environment options or not. For those who are struggling with this: You can disable it in about:config by changing “middlemouse.paste” to false. If you’ve also disabled in your desktop environment settings, it should be gone for good.
I saw that post about Firefox. If you’d said it was browser games causing issues, I might have linked it. (Or I might have failed and not done that. What ifs are tricky.).
If you want kind of funny, someone posted CSS Quake a while back and that browser game has WASD keybindings and Ctrl bound to movedown / crouch. And if you crouch and move forward, it closes the browser window. And there’s no way to fix that.
I wasn’t talking about browser-based games. The middle click pasting makes the middle mouse button unusable in games at least in my distro (Fedora). Disabling it in the DE settings fixed that issue which was separate from the annoyance of accidentally pasting text while scrolling, which was also solved by disabling it in Firefox.
For me a quick web search turned up plenty of posts from people complaining about the desktop environment provided way of disabling it not working. Most of them had no replies. Others had tone-deaf replies suggesting to turn it off using the option they said wasn’t working. And finally a few suggested to run a variety of shady scripts that mess with the guts of the system with no way of undoing the if they break something.
And I’m so happy for you that it works for the games you play.
Edit:
Actual solution found:
After a much deeper search, I’ve found out that buried in there was the actual answer I was looking for: The Linux version of Firefox is independently applying a middle click paste on its own regardless of whether you’ve had it disabled in your desktop environment options or not. For those who are struggling with this: You can disable it in about:config by changing “middlemouse.paste” to false. If you’ve also disabled in your desktop environment settings, it should be gone for good.
I saw that post about Firefox. If you’d said it was browser games causing issues, I might have linked it. (Or I might have failed and not done that. What ifs are tricky.).
If you want kind of funny, someone posted CSS Quake a while back and that browser game has WASD keybindings and Ctrl bound to movedown / crouch. And if you crouch and move forward, it closes the browser window. And there’s no way to fix that.
I wasn’t talking about browser-based games. The middle click pasting makes the middle mouse button unusable in games at least in my distro (Fedora). Disabling it in the DE settings fixed that issue which was separate from the annoyance of accidentally pasting text while scrolling, which was also solved by disabling it in Firefox.