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Erik_Lindblad
March 27, 2024
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Moving around using middle mouse button pastes clip board content

  • March 27, 2024
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Hi!

Our company recently switched to Figma/FigJam for virtual whiteboarding, the tool works great except that scrolling around by middle mouse button dragging pastes my clipboard content all over the doc.

I’m using lastest ubuntu & firefox.

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4 replies

Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
March 27, 2024

Very strange issue, I guess it’s something related to your system, I can’t replicate on Mac. Try contacting Figma support.

ESSA1
ESSA1
March 27, 2024

I think your mouse is set to click the middle button, which is the shortcut key for pasting. You can check the mapping of Zhongjian, if your mouse has mapping set.

Pesterev_Vladislav
Pesterev_Vladislav
December 17, 2024

So what? I also use Linux and struggle from the same problem. Figma needs to add setting to change movement button from middle mouse click.

bastiangx
bastiangx
New Member
January 30, 2025

For anyone wondering, this is not a bug, rather a feature on Linux’ Firefox.
Figma web-app doesn't control it. (I think they should add a note about this in their docs)’

To disable middle-mouse click:

  1. in Firefox’s search bar, type in:
about:config
  1. skip the warning, in the preference search bar, type in:
middlemouse.paste

this option is a boolean, disable it by pressing the `Toggle` button on the right side of the screen to set it to false.

 

(extra note: h key [ hand tool ] can replace middle-mouse)


(extra extra note: Some admins/schools/universities might disable any changes to `about:config` page, in that case, either use any chromium based browsers or download Figma’s native app, i think chrome doesn’t do paste on middlemouse click on default)

 

 
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