@hambier@mastodon.opencloud.lu
Post #2018267
2026-03-15 19:06 UTC
@srslypascal To me that only ever made sense for mice that did have an actual middle mouse button. Clicking the wheel just feels wrong. (On my Thinkpad I can't use it either since it's my scroll button for the trackpoint.)
I'm wondering if I even used Linux back when there were still mice without scrollwheel. (I started playing around with Linux at the end of the 90s.)
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@srslypascal@chaos.social 2026-03-15 19:13
@hambier I've been using this feature for almost two decades now, and my muscle memory is accustomed to this to the point that I require a dedicated physical mouse button, and I will refuse to buy a laptop that lacks a dedicated physical middle mouse button. And yes, I've used this for pasting even on my old Thinkpad X31 where holding the middle button while using the trackpoint was used for scrolling due to the X31 having no touchpad at all.