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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" 
      id="mouse-middleclick">

<info>
 <desc>Use the middle mouse button to paste text or open tabs.</desc>

 <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-05" status="final"/>
 
 <link type="guide" xref="tips" />

 <credit type="author">
  <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
  <email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
 </credit>
 <credit type="author">
   <name>Shaun McCance</name>
   <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
 </credit>
 <license><p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p></license>
</info>

<title>Middle click</title>

<p>Many mice and some touchpads have a middle mouse button. On a mouse
with a scroll wheel, you can usually press directly down on the scroll
wheel to middle-click. If you don't have a middle mouse button, you
can press the left and right mouse buttons at the same time to
middle-click.</p>

<p>Many applications use middle-click for advanced click shortcuts.
One common shortcut is to paste selected text. (This is sometimes
called primary selection paste.) Select the text you want to paste,
then go to where you want to paste it and middle-click. The selected
text is pasted at the mouse position.</p>

<p>Pasting text with your middle mouse button is completely separate
from the normal clipboard. Selecting text does not copy it to your
clipboard. This quick method of pasting only works with the middle
mouse button.</p>

<p>Most web browsers allow you to open links in tabs quickly with
the middle mouse button. Just click any link with your middle mouse
button, and it will open in a new tab. Be careful clicking the link
in the <app>Firefox</app> web browser, though. In <app>Firefox</app>,
if you middle-click anywhere except on a link, it will try to load
your selected text as a URL, as if you used middle-click to paste
it to the location bar and pressed <key>Enter</key>.</p>

<p>In the file manager, middle-click serves two roles. If you
middle-click a folder, it will open in a new tab. This mimics the
behavior of popular web browsers. If you middle-click a file, it
will open the file, just as if you had double-clicked.</p>

<p>Some specialized applications allow you to use the middle mouse
button for other functions. Search your application's help for
<em>middle-click</em> or <em>middle mouse button</em>.</p>
</page>