You can still use the normal copy paste.
That’s true, but it’s significantly more pleasant to be able to copy exclusively with the mouse than to always have to be at the keyboard with one hand.
Especially if you have a wireless mouse :=)
That’s the reason why Linux has this feature.
In addition, the copied data in the mouse is in a different buffer, which makes it possible (e.g. with Vim) to copy two different things at the same time.
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use right click->paste.
At the moment, Obsidian is incompatible with middle-click copy on linux and as you have seen in the other thread we have quite a few angry users about it.
Hence, it will be likely disabled. If one day we can make it compatible, it will be enabled again.
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Right click → copy and paste unfortunately undermines the buffer feature.
It is also much more comfortable to be able to select something and then paste it, rather than always having to right-click → copy and right-click → paste.
Is it considered that there is a checkbox that enables/disables the disable middleclick feature?
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Same issue, Would be nice to have the option to enable / disable the middle-click, this is going to be a tough one to re-learn.
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This is an unfortunate non-solution to the middle-click problem. As a long-time linux user, middle clicking to paste the current text buffer is an important UI feature that is now broken in Obsidian. I can not over-stress how important the middle-click-to-paste feature is to me when working with text files on Linux.
As an aside, the current version doesn’t even fix the only middle-click related issue that I had with Obsidian 1.0 - using middle click to close a tab still pastes texts from my buffer into the open document as described in Linux middle-click paste is problematic and needs to be automatically disabled - #20 by mleduc
My sincere hope is that this change will be reverted very soon and the Obsidian editor will once again behave like a native linux application with regard to the middle click.
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I won’t pretend that it’s just a subject for a casual discussion or a matter of preference, because it’s actually not. It’s one of the CORE UI mechanics, you’re not assumed to touch it, like never.
Middle-mouse click has been my primary pasting gesture for about twenty years. Now you’ve basically rendered it broken. Obsidian is a text editing tool friends, where you use pasting all the time.
What worries me, is that it’s not marked a CRITICAL BUG yet. And having this guy in a release makes me think that you folks are a little out of touch with reality 
Of course we love Obsidian! But I don’t think we’re enough tolerant to take this.
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@WhiteNoise @moderators Please reopen the topic as a bug and remove the “Resolved help” tag, since the problem has not yet been fixed and has now been reproduced by others.
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As @onkeltem, @urdvr and @Naming9789 have said, relearning (especially since the feature still works for the rest of the software in the Linux world) is extremely annoying.
After all, this is one of the features we love about Linux 
. (Not every Linux user, of course, but quite a few)
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I have the same issue for version 1.3 - Is there any workaround yet?
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Since upgrading to the new version (1.0.3) CopyPaste with the middle mouse button stopped working
Steps to reproduce
Select something and try to paste it with the middle mouse button
Expected result
The selected text appears in the document
Actual result
The text does not appear in the document
Environment
- Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.0.3
Installer version: v1.0.3
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 5.18.5-1kali6 (2022-07-07) 5.18.0-kali5-amd64
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 3
Plugins enabled: 0
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
I tried it with enabled and disabled plugins, but it does not work in both cases.
Also I tried to use the newest installer version, but it does not work either.
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Did you try searching the forum?
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Well, it is another version, and the issue still persist on my machine. But thanks for the link.
So im not alone with this issue.
Did you read the discussion? Middle-click paste is likely to be disabled for the foreseeable future.
What i could read from this and this discussion is, that many people have a problem with this foreseeable future and the main isse (that the middle click disrups the ui) still exists, whereas the pasting feature in the editor stopped working.
Am I wrong about that?
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So even if I hate that future of Obsidian, at the moment it’s a bug.
Or am I wrong about that?
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MIddle click hasn’t been intentionally disabled. To fix another bug (on Mac) accidentally broke middle click/paste on linux.
There is the other issue that middle click on linux is itself very broken (even when it was working) https://forum.obsidian.md/t/linux-middle-click-paste-is-problematic-and-needs-to-be-automatically-disabled/34717.
The middle-click/clipboard paste will be reworked in 1.0.4.
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Thanks for your reply!
I am very happy to hear that!
And look forward with joy to the next version
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@WhiteNoise Thank you for reopening the topic.
I am also excitedly looking forward to the patched version! 
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While completely disabling middle-click paste would be better than having obsidian constantly muck up notes, this is definitely not ideal.
I have to agree with @onkeltem, this is a core UI feature, and would definitely handicap users. Also, it seems to me that most users, that are affected, look at disabling middle-click functionality as a work around rather than a solution.
If you rework this, you should probably try to get the underlying issue sorted out instead of disabling it outright. That would mean correctly handling clicks, and for example losing editing focus on certain actions, like middle-clicking tabs or links.
But still, having it disabled is better than obsidian corrupting your notes on tab close or link opening.
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