middle_click_paste = false does nothing

[Rabcor]

I tried setting middle_click_paste = false under misc in hyprland.conf, and it doesn't do anything, I tried in signal, chromium and featherpad, middle click pasting was always still on no matter the app

[JamesMowery]

You apparently need to disable it in all your apps as well. For example, I was getting annoyed that this was happening in Firefox on Gnome, despite disabling middle click paste on Gnome Tweaks. Turns out Firefox has its own middle click paste function that I had to hack around and disable as well.

[EvantheGrump]

about:config -> middlemouse.paste for those wondering

[JamesMowery]

The poster above mentioned he is using Chromium, so I didn't post instructions (as I don't use Chrome). But yeah, a good one to have if you're using Firefox for sure. :)

[EvantheGrump]

no, I completely understand! I came here looking for a solution and thought it would be helpful to include :)

[Rabcor]

Chromium does not seem to have a setting or flag for this. and there were other apps like featherpad which is a qt text editor. Firefox needing extra steps is well known, it's mentioned on the hyprland wiki.

[EvantheGrump]

I tested with featherpad on arch from the extra repo and can't reproduce the issue

[Rabcor]

130625-123350_Cropped_vaapi-lq.mp4

You can tell it's middle click paste by how the selection wasn't overwritten.

It'll paste in featherpad, won't in the terminal tho, so maybe the setting is actually doing something after all, but most places where it matters it's not working.

[EvantheGrump]

Interesting, what distro are you using? I'm not experiencing the issue at all

[Rabcor]

Interesting, what distro are you using? I'm not experiencing the issue at all

Interesting, what distro are you using? I'm not experiencing the issue at all

cachyos

[lunariixx]

Try using hyprctl keyword bind ',mouse:274,exec,;' in terminal

Also, make sure to disable middle click paste in any apps that have the config! I believe both Kitty and FIrefox have it.

[Rabcor]

this disbables the middle mouse button, that is not what I want, I only want to disable middle mouse paste.

[lunariixx]

I was informed a little bit after that misc:middle_click_paste requires reboot to actually function, albiet this is from last week so I hope you have rebooted since then

[Rabcor]

Yes. I have rebooted, sitll not working.

[Rabcor]

The problem is that a lot of apps seem to be developed by **** who think it's a good idea to implement a built in clipboard separate from the os clipboard, ranging from ui toolkits like gtk and qt, to indeed browsers like chromium which seems to be finally going to actually address this soon

For qt apps the only way to disable this retarded functionality is in KDE, it cannot be done anywhere else, i'm not sure how kde does it and why it's impossible to do anywhere else but it's a clear lack of competence from qt devs to engineer such a situation.

Which leaves gnome, which has an actual setting.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste false

The only 100% reliable solution is to set middle_click_paste = true and then running wl-paste -p --watch wl-copy -cp

The only downside is that it will break text selection in many GTK apps (yes, they are incompetent too, they tied text selection to the primary clipboard so clearing it deselects text...), there's a workaround for it available here if this is a problem for you: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472464/72554 basically you just create a script with blacklisted apps and then only clear the primary clipboard for apps that aren't on that blacklist.