Bug 2466940

Summary: mouse selection as copy and middle click as paste no longer work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Reader News <reader.news>
Component: gsettings-desktop-schemasAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 44CC: bnocera, debarshir, fmuellner, gnome-sig, jan.public, jan.skowron, kanru, kees, mclasen, rhughes
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Description Reader News 2026-05-06 04:12:43 UTC 
In Fedora 43 and all earlier version, in gnome-workstation desktop, mouse selection of a piece of text will copy it, and middle click on the mouse will paste it.  In Fedora 44, this no longer works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use mouse to select some text in a terminal window
2.use mouse to click and focus somewhere else and click middle button (on my mouse, the wheel)
3.nothing is pasted
Actual Results:
nothing is pasted

Expected Results:
the selected text should be pasted at the new focused location
Comment 1 Kan-Ru Chen 2026-05-06 13:46:43 UTC 
The default was changed intentionally in GNOME 50 - thread https://discourse.gnome.org/t/please-retain-middle-click-paste/33477

The behavior can be restored by:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true
Comment 2 kees 2026-05-10 16:20:01 UTC 
Thanks for the pointer.
Comment 3 JanS 2026-09-25 16:10:15 UTC 
gnome-tweaks is expressing this function in a user friendly way under:
  Mouse & Touchpad > Middle Click Paste > On/Off
(dnf install gnome-tweaks.noarch
 in terminal or
install "Tweaks" from "The GNOME Project" developer in Software)