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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="mouse-middleclick" xml:lang="id">
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<desc>Use the middle mouse button to open applications, paste text, open tabs,
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<link type="guide" xref="tips"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="mouse#tips"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
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<email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Shaun McCance</name>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
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<mal:name>Andika Triwidada</mal:name>
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<mal:email>andika@gmail.com</mal:email>
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<mal:years>2011, 2012</mal:years>
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<title>Middle-click</title>
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<p>Many mice and some touchpads have a middle mouse button. On a mouse
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with a scroll wheel, you can usually press directly down on the scroll
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wheel to middle-click. If you don't have a middle mouse button, you
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can press the left and right mouse buttons at the same time to
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<p>On touchpads that support multi-finger taps, you can tap with three
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fingers at once to middle-click. You have to
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<link xref="mouse-touchpad-click">enable tap clicking</link> in the
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touchpad settings for this to work.</p>
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<p>Many applications use middle-click for advanced click shortcuts.</p>
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<item><p>One common shortcut is to paste selected text. (This is sometimes
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called primary selection paste.) Select the text you want to paste, then go
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to where you want to paste it and middle-click. The selected text is pasted
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at the mouse position.</p>
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<p>Pasting text with your middle mouse button is completely separate
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from the normal clipboard. Selecting text does not copy it to your
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clipboard. This quick method of pasting only works with the middle
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mouse button.</p></item>
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<item><p>On scrollbars and sliders, a regular click in the empty space moves
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by a set amount (such as one page) in the direction you clicked. You can also
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middle-click in the empty space to move to exactly the location you
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<item><p>In the <gui>Activities</gui> overview, you can quickly open a new
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window for an application in its own new workspace with middle-click. Simply
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middle-click on the application's icon, either in the dash on the left, or in
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the applications overview.</p></item>
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<item><p>Most web browsers allow you to open links in tabs quickly with the
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middle mouse button. Just click any link with your middle mouse button, and
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it will open in a new tab. Be careful clicking the link in the <app>Firefox</app>
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web browser, though. In <app>Firefox</app>, if you middle-click anywhere except
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on a link, it will try to load your selected text as a URL, as if you used
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middle-click to paste it to the location bar and pressed
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<key>Enter</key>.</p></item>
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<item><p>In the file manager, middle-click serves two roles. If you
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middle-click a folder, it will open in a new tab. This mimics the
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behavior of popular web browsers. If you middle-click a file, it
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will open the file, just as if you had double-clicked.</p></item>
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<p>Some specialized applications allow you to use the middle mouse
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button for other functions. Search your application's help for
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<em>middle-click</em> or <em>middle mouse button</em>.</p>
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