Bug 2466940 - mouse selection as copy and middle click as paste no longer work
Summary: mouse selection as copy and middle click as paste no longer work
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gsettings-desktop-schemas
Version: 44
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-06 04:12 UTC by Reader News
Modified: 2026-07-08 08:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-07-08 08:54:17 UTC
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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.


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