swaylock-effects
Swaylock, with fancy effects (by jirutka)
XMousePasteBlock
Userspace tool to disable middle mouse button paste in Xorg (by milaq)
| swaylock-effects | XMousePasteBlock | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 | |
| 163 | 356 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.5 | 4.9 | |
| about 2 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
swaylock-effects
Posts with mentions or reviews of swaylock-effects.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
- Issue with swaylock
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Wayland worth the switch?
swaylock-effects-git https://github.com/jirutka/swaylock-effects/issues/3
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What low key UX improvements would you like to see in linux desktop environments?
It’s still being worked on. A new repository was made to add support for latest swaylock changes, but it’s currently broken. Let’s hope it’s fixed soon
XMousePasteBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of XMousePasteBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-05.
- [EndeavourOS][KDE] Is there a way to disable middle-click pasting in XWayland apps like Discord, other than by forcing these apps to use Wayland natively?
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What low key UX improvements would you like to see in linux desktop environments?
I've actually been using XMousePasteBlock since it does things more elegantly than running an endless loop in the background. But it's still a workaround that shouldn't be necessary unfortunately.
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Linux — Enable Middle Mouse Button Scrolling on Chrome(-ium) and Electron apps (Discord, etc)
Also, don't run this incredibly bad bash script for purging the X11 selection buffer. Use XMousePasteBlock: https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock
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Is it possible to disable middle click paste in Wayland?
This is what I use on X11, but I doubt it would work on Wayland. Might be worth trying anyway: https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock
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Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
here go: https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock
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The middle-click on Linux: an unsung hero
I'm pretty sure I used https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock, never had to deal with it since
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Switched Work Computer from MacOS to Fedora 35 on Thinkpad - 2 Week Impressions
The option to turn it off only works on GTK apps. Here you have a workaround for this. I've been using it for quite some time now and works great so far (I'm on Pop btw).
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Opening the GNOME shell overview with middle click?
cp ff gtk em xmp ta km tb ext
- What is a problem/minor pet peeve you have with Linux that you wish would get fixed?
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How to disable middle-mouse button paste? Possibly kill middle mouse all together.
This tool named XMousePasteBlock may help you, and it has an AUR package if you use ArchLinux.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swaylock-effects and XMousePasteBlock you can also consider the following projects:
mpv-mpris - MPRIS plugin for mpv
earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux
kde-snap-assist - KWin script for KDE Plasma which suggests other window thumbnails on snap
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
LGTVCompanion - Power On and Off WebOS LG TVs together with your PC
keyboard - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ZenStates-Linux - Dynamically edit AMD Ryzen processor P-States
pam-cryptsetup - Automatic LUKS header updates via PAM
swaylock-effects - Swaylock, with fancy effects
darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
swaylock-effects vs mpv-mpris
XMousePasteBlock vs earlyoom
swaylock-effects vs kde-snap-assist
XMousePasteBlock vs kinto
swaylock-effects vs LGTVCompanion
XMousePasteBlock vs keyboard
swaylock-effects vs sway
XMousePasteBlock vs ZenStates-Linux
swaylock-effects vs pam-cryptsetup
XMousePasteBlock vs sway
swaylock-effects vs swaylock-effects
XMousePasteBlock vs darling