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Disable Lock Screen Media Controls in GNOME 49 (Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43)
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This tutorial shows how to disable the media controls in the lock screen of GNOME 49 desktop in Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and Arch etc Linux distributions.
GNOME, the default desktop for Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and optional in Arch, Debian, etc, introduced media controls support for the lock screen in version 49, allowing to pause, play next or previous track without needing to unlock the screen.
Linuxiac:
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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux
Some projects keep surprising me with their “solutions,” and this is one of those cases. A proposal under review by developers from GNOME and Mozilla could change how middle-mouse-button paste behaves on Linux and other Unix-like systems.
The discussions, visible in Mozilla’s Phabricator revision D277804 and a linked GNOME gsettings-desktop-schemas merge request, focus on disabling the traditional primary selection paste by default.
It's FOSS:
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An X11 Thing! Your Favorite Middle-Click Paste is Likely to be Disabled in Future GNOME Releases
The Firefox proposal was posted on Phabricator, outlining that the feature is little known and confuses users. Most of the time, people click the middle mouse button accidentally, having the clipboard dump content without any warning.
Jordan further added that the feature isn't discoverable at all, and that the Freedesktop wiki calls the PRIMARY selection an "easter egg" for expert users and suggests that regular users can just ignore it.
The Register:
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GNOME dev gives middle-click paste fans the middle finger
Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going away soon, and from Firefox too.
More proof, if you will, that the traditional keyboard and multi-button mouse config is boring legacy tech to the hipsters in charge these days. GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has submitted the code to remove middle-click paste behavior from GNOME defaults, which he considers "an X11ism." The merge request concludes "Goodbye X11."
It's not just in GNOME – he's additionally filed bug 1747207 against Firefox, also proposing to remove this behavior.
Linux Magazine:
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Say Goodbye to Middle-Mouse Paste
Both Gnome and Firefox have proposed getting rid of a long-time favorite GNU/Linux feature.