Thanks, I use this too. I remember the last time it happened. My issue with Fedora and 7.1 kernels, also recurring after a couple of years, is my screen not returning from closing the lid. Mike On Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 11:17 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk < talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
For four decades, I've been copying text by selecting it and then pasting by clicking the middle mouse button.
It suddenly stopped working, with no announcement that I saw, when I updated from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44. It was very frustrating. That this was intentional is quite rude.
There are actually two paste buffers: the ^C / ^V one and the mouse select / middle button click one.
It turns out that this is a GNOME "improvement". Here's an OK write-up. < https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/can-we-revert-downstream-the-disablin...
See also <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313089>
Fix 1: dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-enable-primary-paste true That only affects the current user. Variants of that command can have system-wide effects (I try not to understand dconf).
Fix 2:
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