Bug 497675 - [Feature request] Putty style right click paste or allow remapping of mouse button actions
Summary: [Feature request] Putty style right click paste or allow remapping of mouse b...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: copy-paste (show other bugs)
Version: 24.08.3
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2024-12-19 10:54 UTC by Marek Samec
Modified: 2024-12-19 10:54 UTC (History)
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Description Marek Samec 2024-12-19 10:54:50 UTC 
SUMMARY
Many other terminal emulators offer "putty style" right click paste (Terminator) or complete remapping of mouse buttons (Alacritty, Wezterm, Kitty). The middle mouse paste is a well settled linux mapping since the advent of X11, but there are many downsides to this:

- Touchpads - middle mouse is often mapped to gestures or multi-finger touch which is notoriously unreliable on some touchpads, especially if the manufacturer offers no linux drivers. 
- Furthermore some office mice have damaged scroll wheel or non-functional middle click (shared desk offices are common these days). 
- I prefer to map paste to right-click to make it more reliable.

Ideal solution would be to make the buttons fully re-mapable - to allow user to map any action, that can be mapped to a key to a mouse button click. This might require lot of work so a simple "Putty style paste" tick option in Konsole / Profiles / Mouse settings might do it for now. In this case the Konsole menu would be remapped Shift + right click.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.12.4-arch
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Graphics Platform: X11

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