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I use this DAILY!
I do too but it's usually unintentional
HOW? In what manner of mouse using are you accidently clicking the paste button?
Two finger scroll on my touchpad and another finger lightly presses it turning it into a middle click paste
That's interesting. It never does that with my touchpad. I wish it did though.
What desktop environment?
Niri, I think Hyprland did also
Having a mouse button being over-sensitive or being used to another middle clic behavior like windows' autoscroll toggle will tend to do that. Having a fullscreen software using MMB for something else like panning and failling to fully capture the mouse on the current screen in a multi-monitor setup also.