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-disabling-of-middle-click-pasting-future-version-of-gnome/179408>
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:

Use GNOME Tweaks: Mouses & Touchpad: Mouse: Middle Click Paste
This only affects the current user/
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