How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?












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Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?



I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I send a file to someone else that has random text snippets pasted all over it.



I have seen a solution that goes by mapping the mouse's middle button to a non-existant mouse button, but that implies getting rid of the middle mouse button altogether (i.e. no tab-closing, opening links into a new tab automatically, etc.). I'd like to keep my middle mouse button active, just disable the pasting behavior.



This also happens when I scroll text with my touchpad (accidentally hit two-fingers without moving, bam.)



So the problem will not be fixed just by changing for a new mouse (in fact I believe it happens more often with my touchpad than with my mouse).










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    s/sensible/sensitive/
    – Dennis Williamson
    Sep 21 '10 at 15:48






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    Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
    – umpirsky
    Jun 20 '11 at 14:09






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    @umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
    – levesque
    Jun 20 '11 at 16:04






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    If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
    – Maxime R.
    Jan 12 '12 at 14:50






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    @umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
    – Vreality
    Feb 13 '13 at 22:39
















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Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?



I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I send a file to someone else that has random text snippets pasted all over it.



I have seen a solution that goes by mapping the mouse's middle button to a non-existant mouse button, but that implies getting rid of the middle mouse button altogether (i.e. no tab-closing, opening links into a new tab automatically, etc.). I'd like to keep my middle mouse button active, just disable the pasting behavior.



This also happens when I scroll text with my touchpad (accidentally hit two-fingers without moving, bam.)



So the problem will not be fixed just by changing for a new mouse (in fact I believe it happens more often with my touchpad than with my mouse).










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    s/sensible/sensitive/
    – Dennis Williamson
    Sep 21 '10 at 15:48






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    Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
    – umpirsky
    Jun 20 '11 at 14:09






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    @umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
    – levesque
    Jun 20 '11 at 16:04






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    If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
    – Maxime R.
    Jan 12 '12 at 14:50






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    @umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
    – Vreality
    Feb 13 '13 at 22:39














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Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?



I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I send a file to someone else that has random text snippets pasted all over it.



I have seen a solution that goes by mapping the mouse's middle button to a non-existant mouse button, but that implies getting rid of the middle mouse button altogether (i.e. no tab-closing, opening links into a new tab automatically, etc.). I'd like to keep my middle mouse button active, just disable the pasting behavior.



This also happens when I scroll text with my touchpad (accidentally hit two-fingers without moving, bam.)



So the problem will not be fixed just by changing for a new mouse (in fact I believe it happens more often with my touchpad than with my mouse).










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Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?



I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I send a file to someone else that has random text snippets pasted all over it.



I have seen a solution that goes by mapping the mouse's middle button to a non-existant mouse button, but that implies getting rid of the middle mouse button altogether (i.e. no tab-closing, opening links into a new tab automatically, etc.). I'd like to keep my middle mouse button active, just disable the pasting behavior.



This also happens when I scroll text with my touchpad (accidentally hit two-fingers without moving, bam.)



So the problem will not be fixed just by changing for a new mouse (in fact I believe it happens more often with my touchpad than with my mouse).







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    s/sensible/sensitive/
    – Dennis Williamson
    Sep 21 '10 at 15:48






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    Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
    – umpirsky
    Jun 20 '11 at 14:09






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    @umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
    – levesque
    Jun 20 '11 at 16:04






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    If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
    – Maxime R.
    Jan 12 '12 at 14:50






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    @umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
    – Vreality
    Feb 13 '13 at 22:39














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    s/sensible/sensitive/
    – Dennis Williamson
    Sep 21 '10 at 15:48






  • 2




    Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
    – umpirsky
    Jun 20 '11 at 14:09






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    @umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
    – levesque
    Jun 20 '11 at 16:04






  • 5




    If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
    – Maxime R.
    Jan 12 '12 at 14:50






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    @umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
    – Vreality
    Feb 13 '13 at 22:39








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s/sensible/sensitive/
– Dennis Williamson
Sep 21 '10 at 15:48




s/sensible/sensitive/
– Dennis Williamson
Sep 21 '10 at 15:48




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Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
– umpirsky
Jun 20 '11 at 14:09




Really annoying default behaviour. How did you disable it?
– umpirsky
Jun 20 '11 at 14:09




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@umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
– levesque
Jun 20 '11 at 16:04




@umpirsky: Haven't found a proper way to disable it yet.
– levesque
Jun 20 '11 at 16:04




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If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
– Maxime R.
Jan 12 '12 at 14:50




If your mouse records middle clicks while you just want to scroll, I'd suggest you to try another mouse model (probably one with a higher pressure to click the wheel). After several years of Linux use I've never been bothered with your issue, actually the middle click paste proved itself to be quite useful :)
– Maxime R.
Jan 12 '12 at 14:50




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@umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
– Vreality
Feb 13 '13 at 22:39




@umpirsky I would hardly call it idiotic; however, I agree that it can be rather annoying (especially when simply scrolling in a graphical program)
– Vreality
Feb 13 '13 at 22:39










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For a solution to the problem, please view this guide I wrote: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/slipstream/wiki/Disabling_GTK's_middle_mouse_button_functionality



Or, more directly, here's the patch to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch






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  • I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
    – levesque
    Nov 28 '11 at 20:50






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    I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
    – Sam King
    Aug 21 '12 at 14:54








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    @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
    – Jelle Geerts
    Aug 26 '12 at 23:40






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    I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
    – FCTW
    Jul 4 '13 at 17:38






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    @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
    – Jelle Geerts
    Jul 12 '13 at 12:51



















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Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:



Run the following command:



xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"


To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add



pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





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    Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
    – levesque
    Aug 7 '11 at 17:36






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    Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
    – Kris Harper
    Sep 2 '11 at 17:02








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    @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
    – Thor84no
    Apr 2 '14 at 14:56






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    Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
    – Neil Traft
    Oct 6 '15 at 22:03






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    @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
    – S E
    Nov 3 '15 at 14:09



















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I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)



In about:config, set



middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
middlemouse.paste false


Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.






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    +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
    – Tom Brossman
    Oct 3 '12 at 10:30



















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I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.



sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool


Search "tweak tool" in installed apps.
Run it.



Or just type gnome-tweak-tool in a terminal.



Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
Turn off.



Thats it.
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04






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    Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
    – theY4Kman
    Feb 8 '17 at 19:43






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    it doesn't work after restart :'(
    – Ahmad Muzakki
    Apr 2 '17 at 5:55






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    Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
    – CodeMouse92
    Apr 19 '17 at 1:50






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    Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
    – Kvothe
    Jul 25 at 22:53






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    Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
    – trollkotze
    Jul 30 at 14:56





















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This currently isn't possible - though, as you have mentioned, there are ways to disable the MOUSE 3 button - or remap it- none of those get at the source of the issue. The X11 Primary Selection.



While this isn't a solution, hopefully this explanation will make it clear WHY. In Ubuntu there are two clipboards at work. One, which everyone is familiar with, the freedesktop.org clipboard (captures Ctrl+C command) The second is a clipboard manager that has been at play since before Ubuntu even existed - X11. The X Server (X11) manages three other clipboards: Primary Selection, Secondary Selection, and Clipboard. When you select text with your pointer it gets copied to a buffer in the XServer, the Primary Selection, and awaits pasting by means of the Mouse 3 button. The other two were designed to be used by other applications in a means to share a common clipboard between applications. In this case the freedesktop.org clipboard manager in Ubuntu already does this for us.



Through the extent of my research I can not find a way to disable the X11 selection manager. There are no compilation flags, applications, or configuration values that can disable this. There are various ways around this on a per application basis (majority of these applications being command line ones) - but nothing on a global scale.



I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but seems to be the truth to the issue. The only relevant solution I could muster is actually a hack, create a script that executes an infinite while loop that just replaces the Primary Selection with a null value.



First install xsel (Tool for manipulation of the X selection) sudo apt-get install xsel



The code is as follows:



while(true)
do
echo -n | xsel -n -i
sleep 0.5
done


If you place this in a script and add it to your startup scripts this shouldn't be an issue.






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    Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
    – levesque
    Oct 29 '10 at 20:16








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    while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
    – umpirsky
    Jul 8 '11 at 10:54










  • I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
    – umpirsky
    Jul 8 '11 at 11:32






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    @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
    – Eliah Kagan
    Nov 28 '11 at 7:16






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    This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
    – Fantius
    May 18 '12 at 18:45



















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Somehow, I ended up without any xmodmap files on my Ubuntu install, so I had to find a different approach to this problem.



Take a look at the xinput command.



xinput list | grep -i mouse


which lists information about your mouse. It shows my mouse is "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" and also that I have "Macintosh mouse button emulation". Armed with that info, I can



xinput get-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse"


which gives me a listing that looks like



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


Here is the useful, required knowledge. My mouse has, theoretically, 18 buttons. Each button's default action has the same name as it's button number. In other words, button 1 does action 1, button 4 does action 4, etc. Action 0 means "off".



The position in the listing shows the function assigned to that button. So if my button map read



1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 


this would mean button 1 (position 1) does action 1 (normal left button), button 2 (position 2) does action 3 (middle button) and button 3 (position 3) does action 2 (right button).



To make a left handed mouse all you would need would be a button map that starts



3 2 1 4 5 .....


Or, in your case, it looks like you want the middle button to do the same thing as button 1 (left button) so your map needs to start



1 1 3 ....


I'd reset my mouse button mappings thus:



xinput set-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


In your case, you may have a different number of mapped buttons and have some special button map already defined. Likwely, your mouse has a different name, too. First, get your mouse's "name". Then, use the get-button-map operation to find your base button map. finally, use the set-button-map option, modifying button 2 to do action 1.



This is not a permanent change. I added the necessary code to my .bashrc so it executes every time I login or open a terminal.



Hope this helps.






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  • Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
    – neildeadman
    Jan 12 '12 at 14:18










  • Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
    – Wes Miller
    Jan 13 '12 at 13:04






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    If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
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    Jan 13 '12 at 13:09










  • I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
    – Milimetric
    Aug 17 '15 at 14:44












  • this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
    – zzzeek
    Sep 7 '16 at 15:01



















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I suggest using one of these, which work mostly well for me:



using xbindkeys:
whenever middle-button is pressed, clear the primary clipboard. At least on my system it is cleared, before the pasting happens.
Details: create xbindkeys-config:



xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc


Paste the following new hotkey:



"xclip -i /dev/null"    
b:2``


Reload xbindkeys (e.g. killall xbindkeys;xbindkeys). Done.



using xdotool:
Clear the clipboard on window focus change (should work with most windowmanagers). Details:
Execute the following command:



xdotool search --onlyvisible . behave %@ focus exec xclip -i /dev/null


Note that with this command you can still use the primary clipboard within the same window, or pressing middlemouse onto another window BEFORE focusing it (if you don't have "focus follows mouse", or somthing, activated).






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    The best way I've found so far is to use EasyStroke, which can globally intercept middle-button click and allow to behave as middle button only in certain apps.



    You can add a "group" in EasyStroke to apply this interception in multiple applications at once.
    I've set to disable middle click in some of my text editors, IDE and MATLAB only and works as intended.



    Reference:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11811126&postcount=25



    Complete EasyStroke How-To:
    http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/easystroke/wiki/Documentation






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    • Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
      – Marty Fried
      Aug 1 '15 at 18:30










    • Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
      – Marty Fried
      Aug 19 '15 at 16:26



















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    This middle mouse button paste behavior is a feature of the X server (and gpm on the text console) and as far as I know at least X.org can't be configured to disable it - all you can do is to change the mapping of the physical mouse buttons as others already suggested.



    Chances are good that you can configure your touchpad to avoid unwanted middle clicks, see gpointing-device-settings (not installed by default) or the synaptics manpage if you prefer to use your editor for configuration.






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      the link below fixed the problem for me.



      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example:_Disabling_middle-mouse_button_paste_on_a_scrollwheel_mouse



      the page refered by the above link has a section for how to disable the middle mouse paste on scrollwheel, by executing few commands the user can fetch the mouse buttons mapping and can also change the mapping.
      as explained in the page i disabled the the middle button by executing the command:



      $ xinput set-button-map 4 1 0 3





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        The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
        – cpburnz
        Aug 25 '14 at 14:09



















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      I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing the mouse! But, as you, I was frustrated that simple button mapping problem can't be solved elegantly by a software fix. Fortunately, I had the problem on my job computer, and my employer owns a variety of spare mouse controllers. It was a no cost fix!



      I think a proper mouse hardware implementation should not send random middle clicks while scrolling. Recently I found this behaviour to get annoying even while using Windows!



      Now that I've fixed the hardware bug with the proper hardware solution (change the mouse) I even started an addiction to "paste on middle-click" behaviour!!



      Happy linuxing!



      Sincerly,






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        SW:
        Ubuntu 14.04, with Gnome fall back.
        HW: I have a laptop and so the middle button is actually the mouse on/in the laptop.
        Solution:
        Go to Ubuntu SW center and download Unity Tweak Tool.
        Start Tweak Tool. Under the Mouse settings it has switch to turn on/off the middle click insert.
        Have a lovely day.






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        • I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
          – Marty Fried
          Aug 1 '15 at 16:42



















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        I tried the xinput-redirection trick, changing the center mouse "button" (actually a wheel) so it acts just like the left mouse button. It still works as a wheel, and has (apparently) stopped pasting things into random places in the middle of my source code as I scroll past.



        In my case the command was



        xinput set-button-map "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


        but YMMV by mouse model.






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          I may have a partial answer for you, if you are using a lenovo X... with
          touchpoint/touchpad.
          There is a "known" bug with the synaptics mouse buttons. If you try a USB mouse
          and have no problem, but with the touchpad/touchpoint mouse (build into the keyboard) you do have random responses that can delete swaths of text as you type, then this may be the bug I'm talking about.



          https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817



          If this fits your situation, then add your name to the list of people who have identified this bug, at that bug report. Maybe if there are many more of us reporting this, it would get fixed.






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            Here's the simplest solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.



            First install sxhkd and xsel.



            Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so



            ~button2
            echo -n | xsel -n -i
            ~control + c
            echo -n | xsel -n -i
            ~control + x
            echo -n | xsel -n -i


            And that's basically it.



            Now start sxhkd (or configure it to launch on startup). Now, middle mouse will no longer paste anything but will otherwise function like normal. (As long as you use only ctrl+c and ctrl+x to copy things that is, if you copy things with the mouse it can paste once before it returns to normal.)






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              It's more than a gnome feature, i think it works almost everywhere, it works in the console too, and I think it worked even in my "Linux from Scratch".



              So it's really a basic feature perhaps even somewhere in the kernel.



              BTW: It's really useful, and it's not the regular paste like Ctrl + V, everything that is marked with the cursor goes in a second storage and with middleclick can paste, what you marked last.






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                BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                – phiphi
                Sep 23 '10 at 18:13










              • It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                – Matt Fletcher
                Sep 13 '13 at 9:55



















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              Using what I learned in the posts above, this bash one-liner works perfectly for me...



              mouse_id=$(xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/[^0-9]//g') && xinput set-button-map "$mouse_id" 1 0 3





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                The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                – cpburnz
                Aug 25 '14 at 14:10










              • I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                – Kurt
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              You might want to try emulating a two button mouse. With a two button mouse you paste by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time (rather then the scroll wheel).



              Install gpointing-device-settings:



              sudo aptitude install gpointing-device-settings


              http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings



              Alternately, if you do not wish to install gpointing-device-settings , and you are not bothered by command line options, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input On this wiki page there are several command line / configuration options, choose the one you prefer.






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              • Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                – neildeadman
                Jan 13 '12 at 8:12










              • App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                – HDave
                Feb 7 '14 at 19:48



















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              That's a good question, which i don't have an answer for (yet).
              A quick and dirty workaround is to remap it NOT to 0, but to 1.
              This way, it turns middle-"click" to left click, and does not affect your scroller...
              It is so far the best I can think of.



              Note:This information came from Ubuntu Forums, not my own noggin! :)






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                did you check out gpm ? More info at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/gpm.8.html. Available via sudo aptitude install gpm on lucid. I don't see the disable-paste program in the ubuntu package however, the -A option may be worth giving a try.






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                  I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
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                For a solution to the problem, please view this guide I wrote: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/slipstream/wiki/Disabling_GTK's_middle_mouse_button_functionality



                Or, more directly, here's the patch to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch






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                • I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                  – levesque
                  Nov 28 '11 at 20:50






                • 1




                  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                  – Sam King
                  Aug 21 '12 at 14:54








                • 1




                  @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Aug 26 '12 at 23:40






                • 1




                  I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                  – FCTW
                  Jul 4 '13 at 17:38






                • 1




                  @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Jul 12 '13 at 12:51
















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                For a solution to the problem, please view this guide I wrote: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/slipstream/wiki/Disabling_GTK's_middle_mouse_button_functionality



                Or, more directly, here's the patch to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch






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                • I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                  – levesque
                  Nov 28 '11 at 20:50






                • 1




                  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                  – Sam King
                  Aug 21 '12 at 14:54








                • 1




                  @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Aug 26 '12 at 23:40






                • 1




                  I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                  – FCTW
                  Jul 4 '13 at 17:38






                • 1




                  @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Jul 12 '13 at 12:51














                14












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                For a solution to the problem, please view this guide I wrote: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/slipstream/wiki/Disabling_GTK's_middle_mouse_button_functionality



                Or, more directly, here's the patch to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch






                share|improve this answer














                For a solution to the problem, please view this guide I wrote: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/slipstream/wiki/Disabling_GTK's_middle_mouse_button_functionality



                Or, more directly, here's the patch to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch







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                answered Sep 17 '11 at 21:27









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                • I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                  – levesque
                  Nov 28 '11 at 20:50






                • 1




                  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                  – Sam King
                  Aug 21 '12 at 14:54








                • 1




                  @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Aug 26 '12 at 23:40






                • 1




                  I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                  – FCTW
                  Jul 4 '13 at 17:38






                • 1




                  @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Jul 12 '13 at 12:51


















                • I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                  – levesque
                  Nov 28 '11 at 20:50






                • 1




                  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                  – Sam King
                  Aug 21 '12 at 14:54








                • 1




                  @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Aug 26 '12 at 23:40






                • 1




                  I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                  – FCTW
                  Jul 4 '13 at 17:38






                • 1




                  @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                  – Jelle Geerts
                  Jul 12 '13 at 12:51
















                I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                – levesque
                Nov 28 '11 at 20:50




                I haven't had the time to try it (partly because I no longer have a laptop), but this seems like the solution to my problem :)
                – levesque
                Nov 28 '11 at 20:50




                1




                1




                I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                – Sam King
                Aug 21 '12 at 14:54






                I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with gtk 2.0-0_2.24.10, and it failed on the dpkg-buildpackage line. It wouldn't build with uncommitted local changes, so I had to run dpkg-source --commit.
                – Sam King
                Aug 21 '12 at 14:54






                1




                1




                @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                – Jelle Geerts
                Aug 26 '12 at 23:40




                @Sam: Thanks for the heads up. Apparently, the --source-option=--auto-commit option can be passed to dpkg-buildpackage (which is somewhat more convenient as one doesn't have to edit the change log). I've updated the guide to reflect this.
                – Jelle Geerts
                Aug 26 '12 at 23:40




                1




                1




                I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                – FCTW
                Jul 4 '13 at 17:38




                I tried this solution, but every time I got to the sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0 part I get an error with Picking 'gtk+2.0' as source package instead of 'libgtk2.0-0' E: Unable to find a source package for gtk+2.0 Help?
                – FCTW
                Jul 4 '13 at 17:38




                1




                1




                @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                – Jelle Geerts
                Jul 12 '13 at 12:51




                @FCTW: I suspect the cause of the problem is that GTK3 has replaced GTK2 in modern distributions. Hence, you'll have to find the package name of the installed GTK3 library, by running a command like dpkg -l | grep libgtk. It's probably something like libgtk-3-0. I have verified my patch to work on early versions of GTK3; hopefully it still works.
                – Jelle Geerts
                Jul 12 '13 at 12:51













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                Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:



                Run the following command:



                xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"


                To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add



                pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





                share|improve this answer



















                • 17




                  Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                  – levesque
                  Aug 7 '11 at 17:36






                • 2




                  Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                  – Kris Harper
                  Sep 2 '11 at 17:02








                • 17




                  @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                  – Thor84no
                  Apr 2 '14 at 14:56






                • 1




                  Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                  – Neil Traft
                  Oct 6 '15 at 22:03






                • 1




                  @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                  – S E
                  Nov 3 '15 at 14:09
















                31














                Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:



                Run the following command:



                xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"


                To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add



                pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





                share|improve this answer



















                • 17




                  Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                  – levesque
                  Aug 7 '11 at 17:36






                • 2




                  Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                  – Kris Harper
                  Sep 2 '11 at 17:02








                • 17




                  @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                  – Thor84no
                  Apr 2 '14 at 14:56






                • 1




                  Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                  – Neil Traft
                  Oct 6 '15 at 22:03






                • 1




                  @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                  – S E
                  Nov 3 '15 at 14:09














                31












                31








                31






                Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:



                Run the following command:



                xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"


                To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add



                pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





                share|improve this answer














                Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:



                Run the following command:



                xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"


                To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add



                pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9






                share|improve this answer














                share|improve this answer



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                Jay Goldfarb

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                • 17




                  Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                  – levesque
                  Aug 7 '11 at 17:36






                • 2




                  Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                  – Kris Harper
                  Sep 2 '11 at 17:02








                • 17




                  @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                  – Thor84no
                  Apr 2 '14 at 14:56






                • 1




                  Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                  – Neil Traft
                  Oct 6 '15 at 22:03






                • 1




                  @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                  – S E
                  Nov 3 '15 at 14:09














                • 17




                  Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                  – levesque
                  Aug 7 '11 at 17:36






                • 2




                  Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                  – Kris Harper
                  Sep 2 '11 at 17:02








                • 17




                  @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                  – Thor84no
                  Apr 2 '14 at 14:56






                • 1




                  Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                  – Neil Traft
                  Oct 6 '15 at 22:03






                • 1




                  @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                  – S E
                  Nov 3 '15 at 14:09








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                17




                Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                – levesque
                Aug 7 '11 at 17:36




                Doesn't this just disable the middle button altogether? What about closing tabs, opening links to new tabs, etc.?
                – levesque
                Aug 7 '11 at 17:36




                2




                2




                Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                – Kris Harper
                Sep 2 '11 at 17:02






                Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
                – Kris Harper
                Sep 2 '11 at 17:02






                17




                17




                @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                – Thor84no
                Apr 2 '14 at 14:56




                @HDave How on earth should this be marked as the answer to a question that specifically states he's seen solutions that rebind the middle mouse to a different key, but those are not satisfactory? That's exactly what this answer does.
                – Thor84no
                Apr 2 '14 at 14:56




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                Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                – Neil Traft
                Oct 6 '15 at 22:03




                Can anyone provide an explanation as to what this series of magic numbers means?
                – Neil Traft
                Oct 6 '15 at 22:03




                1




                1




                @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                – S E
                Nov 3 '15 at 14:09




                @Neil Traft I havent looked into this exact configuration too much but from my understanding of input event systems when you have an input device like a mouse, it sends back standard input events when buttons are pressed these events tell you that "a button changed state", "that button has id X", and "it current state is pressed/released" normally gtk modifies the input events it receives to map buttons ids [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] to [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] keep in mind only the first 3 button ids are used on most mice to indicate the button id for left, middle and right. so middle is now id 25
                – S E
                Nov 3 '15 at 14:09











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                I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)



                In about:config, set



                middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
                middlemouse.paste false


                Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.






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                  +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                  – Tom Brossman
                  Oct 3 '12 at 10:30
















                23














                I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)



                In about:config, set



                middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
                middlemouse.paste false


                Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.






                share|improve this answer

















                • 2




                  +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                  – Tom Brossman
                  Oct 3 '12 at 10:30














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                23






                I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)



                In about:config, set



                middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
                middlemouse.paste false


                Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.






                share|improve this answer












                I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)



                In about:config, set



                middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
                middlemouse.paste false


                Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.







                share|improve this answer












                share|improve this answer



                share|improve this answer










                answered Jan 21 '12 at 9:11









                Ben

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                • 2




                  +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                  – Tom Brossman
                  Oct 3 '12 at 10:30














                • 2




                  +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                  – Tom Brossman
                  Oct 3 '12 at 10:30








                2




                2




                +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                – Tom Brossman
                Oct 3 '12 at 10:30




                +1 That is helpful. I'll also add that in LibreOffice you can do this in Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View/Mouse change 'Middle mouse button' to your preferred setting.
                – Tom Brossman
                Oct 3 '12 at 10:30











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                I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.



                sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool


                Search "tweak tool" in installed apps.
                Run it.



                Or just type gnome-tweak-tool in a terminal.



                Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
                Turn off.



                Thats it.
                Tested on Ubuntu 16.04






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                  Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                  – theY4Kman
                  Feb 8 '17 at 19:43






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                  it doesn't work after restart :'(
                  – Ahmad Muzakki
                  Apr 2 '17 at 5:55






                • 1




                  Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                  – CodeMouse92
                  Apr 19 '17 at 1:50






                • 3




                  Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                  – Kvothe
                  Jul 25 at 22:53






                • 3




                  Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                  – trollkotze
                  Jul 30 at 14:56


















                23














                I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.



                sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool


                Search "tweak tool" in installed apps.
                Run it.



                Or just type gnome-tweak-tool in a terminal.



                Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
                Turn off.



                Thats it.
                Tested on Ubuntu 16.04






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                • 1




                  Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                  – theY4Kman
                  Feb 8 '17 at 19:43






                • 1




                  it doesn't work after restart :'(
                  – Ahmad Muzakki
                  Apr 2 '17 at 5:55






                • 1




                  Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                  – CodeMouse92
                  Apr 19 '17 at 1:50






                • 3




                  Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                  – Kvothe
                  Jul 25 at 22:53






                • 3




                  Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                  – trollkotze
                  Jul 30 at 14:56
















                23












                23








                23






                I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.



                sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool


                Search "tweak tool" in installed apps.
                Run it.



                Or just type gnome-tweak-tool in a terminal.



                Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
                Turn off.



                Thats it.
                Tested on Ubuntu 16.04






                share|improve this answer














                I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.



                sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool


                Search "tweak tool" in installed apps.
                Run it.



                Or just type gnome-tweak-tool in a terminal.



                Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
                Turn off.



                Thats it.
                Tested on Ubuntu 16.04







                share|improve this answer














                share|improve this answer



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                edited Jul 25 at 4:59









                Zzzach...

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                answered Jan 15 '17 at 12:03









                Sunny127

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                • 1




                  Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                  – theY4Kman
                  Feb 8 '17 at 19:43






                • 1




                  it doesn't work after restart :'(
                  – Ahmad Muzakki
                  Apr 2 '17 at 5:55






                • 1




                  Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                  – CodeMouse92
                  Apr 19 '17 at 1:50






                • 3




                  Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                  – Kvothe
                  Jul 25 at 22:53






                • 3




                  Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                  – trollkotze
                  Jul 30 at 14:56
















                • 1




                  Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                  – theY4Kman
                  Feb 8 '17 at 19:43






                • 1




                  it doesn't work after restart :'(
                  – Ahmad Muzakki
                  Apr 2 '17 at 5:55






                • 1




                  Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                  – CodeMouse92
                  Apr 19 '17 at 1:50






                • 3




                  Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                  – Kvothe
                  Jul 25 at 22:53






                • 3




                  Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                  – trollkotze
                  Jul 30 at 14:56










                1




                1




                Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                – theY4Kman
                Feb 8 '17 at 19:43




                Worked like a charm! I was losing hope so quickly. Thank you!
                – theY4Kman
                Feb 8 '17 at 19:43




                1




                1




                it doesn't work after restart :'(
                – Ahmad Muzakki
                Apr 2 '17 at 5:55




                it doesn't work after restart :'(
                – Ahmad Muzakki
                Apr 2 '17 at 5:55




                1




                1




                Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                – CodeMouse92
                Apr 19 '17 at 1:50




                Worked, of course! Why isn't this the top answer?
                – CodeMouse92
                Apr 19 '17 at 1:50




                3




                3




                Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                – Kvothe
                Jul 25 at 22:53




                Using the Tweaks tool would be by far the nicest way to do this, if it worked. I switched off the middle-click paste and it is still middle-click pasting same as before. Same after a restart. Anyone solve a similar issue?
                – Kvothe
                Jul 25 at 22:53




                3




                3




                Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                – trollkotze
                Jul 30 at 14:56






                Also interesting, an explanation for the weird middle-click behaviour of overwriting the clipboard buffer with the current selection: askubuntu.com/a/225879/653860 (But sadly, disabling the middle mouse button altogether, as proposed in that answer, also disables my mouse wheel completely. It seems there is no simple way to get rid of this stupid behaviour without destroying other crucial input functionality. Very bad design... :/ )
                – trollkotze
                Jul 30 at 14:56













                19














                This currently isn't possible - though, as you have mentioned, there are ways to disable the MOUSE 3 button - or remap it- none of those get at the source of the issue. The X11 Primary Selection.



                While this isn't a solution, hopefully this explanation will make it clear WHY. In Ubuntu there are two clipboards at work. One, which everyone is familiar with, the freedesktop.org clipboard (captures Ctrl+C command) The second is a clipboard manager that has been at play since before Ubuntu even existed - X11. The X Server (X11) manages three other clipboards: Primary Selection, Secondary Selection, and Clipboard. When you select text with your pointer it gets copied to a buffer in the XServer, the Primary Selection, and awaits pasting by means of the Mouse 3 button. The other two were designed to be used by other applications in a means to share a common clipboard between applications. In this case the freedesktop.org clipboard manager in Ubuntu already does this for us.



                Through the extent of my research I can not find a way to disable the X11 selection manager. There are no compilation flags, applications, or configuration values that can disable this. There are various ways around this on a per application basis (majority of these applications being command line ones) - but nothing on a global scale.



                I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but seems to be the truth to the issue. The only relevant solution I could muster is actually a hack, create a script that executes an infinite while loop that just replaces the Primary Selection with a null value.



                First install xsel (Tool for manipulation of the X selection) sudo apt-get install xsel



                The code is as follows:



                while(true)
                do
                echo -n | xsel -n -i
                sleep 0.5
                done


                If you place this in a script and add it to your startup scripts this shouldn't be an issue.






                share|improve this answer



















                • 3




                  Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                  – levesque
                  Oct 29 '10 at 20:16








                • 2




                  while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 10:54










                • I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 11:32






                • 4




                  @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                  – Eliah Kagan
                  Nov 28 '11 at 7:16






                • 3




                  This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                  – Fantius
                  May 18 '12 at 18:45
















                19














                This currently isn't possible - though, as you have mentioned, there are ways to disable the MOUSE 3 button - or remap it- none of those get at the source of the issue. The X11 Primary Selection.



                While this isn't a solution, hopefully this explanation will make it clear WHY. In Ubuntu there are two clipboards at work. One, which everyone is familiar with, the freedesktop.org clipboard (captures Ctrl+C command) The second is a clipboard manager that has been at play since before Ubuntu even existed - X11. The X Server (X11) manages three other clipboards: Primary Selection, Secondary Selection, and Clipboard. When you select text with your pointer it gets copied to a buffer in the XServer, the Primary Selection, and awaits pasting by means of the Mouse 3 button. The other two were designed to be used by other applications in a means to share a common clipboard between applications. In this case the freedesktop.org clipboard manager in Ubuntu already does this for us.



                Through the extent of my research I can not find a way to disable the X11 selection manager. There are no compilation flags, applications, or configuration values that can disable this. There are various ways around this on a per application basis (majority of these applications being command line ones) - but nothing on a global scale.



                I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but seems to be the truth to the issue. The only relevant solution I could muster is actually a hack, create a script that executes an infinite while loop that just replaces the Primary Selection with a null value.



                First install xsel (Tool for manipulation of the X selection) sudo apt-get install xsel



                The code is as follows:



                while(true)
                do
                echo -n | xsel -n -i
                sleep 0.5
                done


                If you place this in a script and add it to your startup scripts this shouldn't be an issue.






                share|improve this answer



















                • 3




                  Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                  – levesque
                  Oct 29 '10 at 20:16








                • 2




                  while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 10:54










                • I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 11:32






                • 4




                  @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                  – Eliah Kagan
                  Nov 28 '11 at 7:16






                • 3




                  This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                  – Fantius
                  May 18 '12 at 18:45














                19












                19








                19






                This currently isn't possible - though, as you have mentioned, there are ways to disable the MOUSE 3 button - or remap it- none of those get at the source of the issue. The X11 Primary Selection.



                While this isn't a solution, hopefully this explanation will make it clear WHY. In Ubuntu there are two clipboards at work. One, which everyone is familiar with, the freedesktop.org clipboard (captures Ctrl+C command) The second is a clipboard manager that has been at play since before Ubuntu even existed - X11. The X Server (X11) manages three other clipboards: Primary Selection, Secondary Selection, and Clipboard. When you select text with your pointer it gets copied to a buffer in the XServer, the Primary Selection, and awaits pasting by means of the Mouse 3 button. The other two were designed to be used by other applications in a means to share a common clipboard between applications. In this case the freedesktop.org clipboard manager in Ubuntu already does this for us.



                Through the extent of my research I can not find a way to disable the X11 selection manager. There are no compilation flags, applications, or configuration values that can disable this. There are various ways around this on a per application basis (majority of these applications being command line ones) - but nothing on a global scale.



                I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but seems to be the truth to the issue. The only relevant solution I could muster is actually a hack, create a script that executes an infinite while loop that just replaces the Primary Selection with a null value.



                First install xsel (Tool for manipulation of the X selection) sudo apt-get install xsel



                The code is as follows:



                while(true)
                do
                echo -n | xsel -n -i
                sleep 0.5
                done


                If you place this in a script and add it to your startup scripts this shouldn't be an issue.






                share|improve this answer














                This currently isn't possible - though, as you have mentioned, there are ways to disable the MOUSE 3 button - or remap it- none of those get at the source of the issue. The X11 Primary Selection.



                While this isn't a solution, hopefully this explanation will make it clear WHY. In Ubuntu there are two clipboards at work. One, which everyone is familiar with, the freedesktop.org clipboard (captures Ctrl+C command) The second is a clipboard manager that has been at play since before Ubuntu even existed - X11. The X Server (X11) manages three other clipboards: Primary Selection, Secondary Selection, and Clipboard. When you select text with your pointer it gets copied to a buffer in the XServer, the Primary Selection, and awaits pasting by means of the Mouse 3 button. The other two were designed to be used by other applications in a means to share a common clipboard between applications. In this case the freedesktop.org clipboard manager in Ubuntu already does this for us.



                Through the extent of my research I can not find a way to disable the X11 selection manager. There are no compilation flags, applications, or configuration values that can disable this. There are various ways around this on a per application basis (majority of these applications being command line ones) - but nothing on a global scale.



                I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but seems to be the truth to the issue. The only relevant solution I could muster is actually a hack, create a script that executes an infinite while loop that just replaces the Primary Selection with a null value.



                First install xsel (Tool for manipulation of the X selection) sudo apt-get install xsel



                The code is as follows:



                while(true)
                do
                echo -n | xsel -n -i
                sleep 0.5
                done


                If you place this in a script and add it to your startup scripts this shouldn't be an issue.







                share|improve this answer














                share|improve this answer



                share|improve this answer








                edited Nov 9 '11 at 0:16









                Community

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                answered Sep 23 '10 at 18:56









                Marco Ceppi

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                36.8k24152190








                • 3




                  Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                  – levesque
                  Oct 29 '10 at 20:16








                • 2




                  while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 10:54










                • I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 11:32






                • 4




                  @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                  – Eliah Kagan
                  Nov 28 '11 at 7:16






                • 3




                  This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                  – Fantius
                  May 18 '12 at 18:45














                • 3




                  Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                  – levesque
                  Oct 29 '10 at 20:16








                • 2




                  while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 10:54










                • I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                  – umpirsky
                  Jul 8 '11 at 11:32






                • 4




                  @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                  – Eliah Kagan
                  Nov 28 '11 at 7:16






                • 3




                  This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                  – Fantius
                  May 18 '12 at 18:45








                3




                3




                Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                – levesque
                Oct 29 '10 at 20:16






                Any chance for a script that just clears the buffer instead of cancelling all selections?
                – levesque
                Oct 29 '10 at 20:16






                2




                2




                while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                – umpirsky
                Jul 8 '11 at 10:54




                while(true)? Looks like it will kill the CPU :)
                – umpirsky
                Jul 8 '11 at 10:54












                I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                – umpirsky
                Jul 8 '11 at 11:32




                I've tried mapping butons by adding Option "ButtonMapping" "1 1 3 4 5" to xorg.conf, but the problem resists.
                – umpirsky
                Jul 8 '11 at 11:32




                4




                4




                @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                – Eliah Kagan
                Nov 28 '11 at 7:16




                @umpirsky The while(true) is not a problem because the loop contains sleep 0.5 which relinquishes half a second of CPU time in each of the loop's iterations. Because of that (and the lightweightness of the xsel command invocation which comprises the other part of the loop), the CPU resources taken up by the loop will be exceedingly tiny even on the slowest of Ubuntu machines.
                – Eliah Kagan
                Nov 28 '11 at 7:16




                3




                3




                This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                – Fantius
                May 18 '12 at 18:45




                This doesn't seem to work well on Unity because the script clears any existing selection in a terminal, which means you cannot copy test from a terminal by any means (by the time you try to copy, the text is unselected).
                – Fantius
                May 18 '12 at 18:45











                14














                Somehow, I ended up without any xmodmap files on my Ubuntu install, so I had to find a different approach to this problem.



                Take a look at the xinput command.



                xinput list | grep -i mouse


                which lists information about your mouse. It shows my mouse is "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" and also that I have "Macintosh mouse button emulation". Armed with that info, I can



                xinput get-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse"


                which gives me a listing that looks like



                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                Here is the useful, required knowledge. My mouse has, theoretically, 18 buttons. Each button's default action has the same name as it's button number. In other words, button 1 does action 1, button 4 does action 4, etc. Action 0 means "off".



                The position in the listing shows the function assigned to that button. So if my button map read



                1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 


                this would mean button 1 (position 1) does action 1 (normal left button), button 2 (position 2) does action 3 (middle button) and button 3 (position 3) does action 2 (right button).



                To make a left handed mouse all you would need would be a button map that starts



                3 2 1 4 5 .....


                Or, in your case, it looks like you want the middle button to do the same thing as button 1 (left button) so your map needs to start



                1 1 3 ....


                I'd reset my mouse button mappings thus:



                xinput set-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                In your case, you may have a different number of mapped buttons and have some special button map already defined. Likwely, your mouse has a different name, too. First, get your mouse's "name". Then, use the get-button-map operation to find your base button map. finally, use the set-button-map option, modifying button 2 to do action 1.



                This is not a permanent change. I added the necessary code to my .bashrc so it executes every time I login or open a terminal.



                Hope this helps.






                share|improve this answer























                • Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                  – neildeadman
                  Jan 12 '12 at 14:18










                • Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:04






                • 1




                  If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:09










                • I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                  – Milimetric
                  Aug 17 '15 at 14:44












                • this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                  – zzzeek
                  Sep 7 '16 at 15:01
















                14














                Somehow, I ended up without any xmodmap files on my Ubuntu install, so I had to find a different approach to this problem.



                Take a look at the xinput command.



                xinput list | grep -i mouse


                which lists information about your mouse. It shows my mouse is "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" and also that I have "Macintosh mouse button emulation". Armed with that info, I can



                xinput get-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse"


                which gives me a listing that looks like



                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                Here is the useful, required knowledge. My mouse has, theoretically, 18 buttons. Each button's default action has the same name as it's button number. In other words, button 1 does action 1, button 4 does action 4, etc. Action 0 means "off".



                The position in the listing shows the function assigned to that button. So if my button map read



                1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 


                this would mean button 1 (position 1) does action 1 (normal left button), button 2 (position 2) does action 3 (middle button) and button 3 (position 3) does action 2 (right button).



                To make a left handed mouse all you would need would be a button map that starts



                3 2 1 4 5 .....


                Or, in your case, it looks like you want the middle button to do the same thing as button 1 (left button) so your map needs to start



                1 1 3 ....


                I'd reset my mouse button mappings thus:



                xinput set-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                In your case, you may have a different number of mapped buttons and have some special button map already defined. Likwely, your mouse has a different name, too. First, get your mouse's "name". Then, use the get-button-map operation to find your base button map. finally, use the set-button-map option, modifying button 2 to do action 1.



                This is not a permanent change. I added the necessary code to my .bashrc so it executes every time I login or open a terminal.



                Hope this helps.






                share|improve this answer























                • Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                  – neildeadman
                  Jan 12 '12 at 14:18










                • Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:04






                • 1




                  If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:09










                • I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                  – Milimetric
                  Aug 17 '15 at 14:44












                • this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                  – zzzeek
                  Sep 7 '16 at 15:01














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                Somehow, I ended up without any xmodmap files on my Ubuntu install, so I had to find a different approach to this problem.



                Take a look at the xinput command.



                xinput list | grep -i mouse


                which lists information about your mouse. It shows my mouse is "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" and also that I have "Macintosh mouse button emulation". Armed with that info, I can



                xinput get-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse"


                which gives me a listing that looks like



                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                Here is the useful, required knowledge. My mouse has, theoretically, 18 buttons. Each button's default action has the same name as it's button number. In other words, button 1 does action 1, button 4 does action 4, etc. Action 0 means "off".



                The position in the listing shows the function assigned to that button. So if my button map read



                1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 


                this would mean button 1 (position 1) does action 1 (normal left button), button 2 (position 2) does action 3 (middle button) and button 3 (position 3) does action 2 (right button).



                To make a left handed mouse all you would need would be a button map that starts



                3 2 1 4 5 .....


                Or, in your case, it looks like you want the middle button to do the same thing as button 1 (left button) so your map needs to start



                1 1 3 ....


                I'd reset my mouse button mappings thus:



                xinput set-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                In your case, you may have a different number of mapped buttons and have some special button map already defined. Likwely, your mouse has a different name, too. First, get your mouse's "name". Then, use the get-button-map operation to find your base button map. finally, use the set-button-map option, modifying button 2 to do action 1.



                This is not a permanent change. I added the necessary code to my .bashrc so it executes every time I login or open a terminal.



                Hope this helps.






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                Somehow, I ended up without any xmodmap files on my Ubuntu install, so I had to find a different approach to this problem.



                Take a look at the xinput command.



                xinput list | grep -i mouse


                which lists information about your mouse. It shows my mouse is "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" and also that I have "Macintosh mouse button emulation". Armed with that info, I can



                xinput get-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse"


                which gives me a listing that looks like



                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                Here is the useful, required knowledge. My mouse has, theoretically, 18 buttons. Each button's default action has the same name as it's button number. In other words, button 1 does action 1, button 4 does action 4, etc. Action 0 means "off".



                The position in the listing shows the function assigned to that button. So if my button map read



                1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 


                this would mean button 1 (position 1) does action 1 (normal left button), button 2 (position 2) does action 3 (middle button) and button 3 (position 3) does action 2 (right button).



                To make a left handed mouse all you would need would be a button map that starts



                3 2 1 4 5 .....


                Or, in your case, it looks like you want the middle button to do the same thing as button 1 (left button) so your map needs to start



                1 1 3 ....


                I'd reset my mouse button mappings thus:



                xinput set-button-map "Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18


                In your case, you may have a different number of mapped buttons and have some special button map already defined. Likwely, your mouse has a different name, too. First, get your mouse's "name". Then, use the get-button-map operation to find your base button map. finally, use the set-button-map option, modifying button 2 to do action 1.



                This is not a permanent change. I added the necessary code to my .bashrc so it executes every time I login or open a terminal.



                Hope this helps.







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                edited Jan 12 '12 at 14:16









                neildeadman

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                answered Jan 12 '12 at 12:58









                Wes Miller

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                • Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                  – neildeadman
                  Jan 12 '12 at 14:18










                • Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:04






                • 1




                  If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:09










                • I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                  – Milimetric
                  Aug 17 '15 at 14:44












                • this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                  – zzzeek
                  Sep 7 '16 at 15:01


















                • Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                  – neildeadman
                  Jan 12 '12 at 14:18










                • Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:04






                • 1




                  If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                  – Wes Miller
                  Jan 13 '12 at 13:09










                • I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                  – Milimetric
                  Aug 17 '15 at 14:44












                • this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                  – zzzeek
                  Sep 7 '16 at 15:01
















                Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                – neildeadman
                Jan 12 '12 at 14:18




                Thanks for the info. It explains a little more about the mouse buttons and the actions applied to them. However, it isn't the solution I am looking for. If you left-click a tab in Chrome (to use my example) it selects it (if not selected already). Clicking it with the middle button, will close it (i.e. without clicking the X). I also miss middle-clicking a link to have it open in a new tab for later reading. I realise I can overcome these with alternatives but I am used to this way of working....
                – neildeadman
                Jan 12 '12 at 14:18












                Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                – Wes Miller
                Jan 13 '12 at 13:04




                Just a thought; any of the other buttons on your mouse, mine say I have 18 buttons though I have yet to physically find more than about 8 of them) may be the function you want. Try mapping other buttons to your third button and see if you find something useful.
                – Wes Miller
                Jan 13 '12 at 13:04




                1




                1




                If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                – Wes Miller
                Jan 13 '12 at 13:09




                If you remap as a two button mouse, it shouldn't change the wheelfunction since the wheel rolls are pressing button 5 and 6 (or 7 and 8 or something like that).
                – Wes Miller
                Jan 13 '12 at 13:09












                I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                – Milimetric
                Aug 17 '15 at 14:44






                I can confirm that this works on both the built in ThinkPad trackpoint and the Lenovo keyboard that has the same layout. The get-button-map on the Lenovo keyboard comes back with 22 buttons for me, but the same set-button-map <<name-or-id>> 1 0 3 approach works for me
                – Milimetric
                Aug 17 '15 at 14:44














                this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                – zzzeek
                Sep 7 '16 at 15:01




                this is the answer (though I think your description is off) - get-button-map links the position in the list to the physical button, which is the opposite of xmodmap, which links the position in the list to the function. Using the set-button-map, we can map two physical buttons to one logical position. Works on an asus zenbook pro for me.
                – zzzeek
                Sep 7 '16 at 15:01











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                I suggest using one of these, which work mostly well for me:



                using xbindkeys:
                whenever middle-button is pressed, clear the primary clipboard. At least on my system it is cleared, before the pasting happens.
                Details: create xbindkeys-config:



                xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc


                Paste the following new hotkey:



                "xclip -i /dev/null"    
                b:2``


                Reload xbindkeys (e.g. killall xbindkeys;xbindkeys). Done.



                using xdotool:
                Clear the clipboard on window focus change (should work with most windowmanagers). Details:
                Execute the following command:



                xdotool search --onlyvisible . behave %@ focus exec xclip -i /dev/null


                Note that with this command you can still use the primary clipboard within the same window, or pressing middlemouse onto another window BEFORE focusing it (if you don't have "focus follows mouse", or somthing, activated).






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                  4














                  I suggest using one of these, which work mostly well for me:



                  using xbindkeys:
                  whenever middle-button is pressed, clear the primary clipboard. At least on my system it is cleared, before the pasting happens.
                  Details: create xbindkeys-config:



                  xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc


                  Paste the following new hotkey:



                  "xclip -i /dev/null"    
                  b:2``


                  Reload xbindkeys (e.g. killall xbindkeys;xbindkeys). Done.



                  using xdotool:
                  Clear the clipboard on window focus change (should work with most windowmanagers). Details:
                  Execute the following command:



                  xdotool search --onlyvisible . behave %@ focus exec xclip -i /dev/null


                  Note that with this command you can still use the primary clipboard within the same window, or pressing middlemouse onto another window BEFORE focusing it (if you don't have "focus follows mouse", or somthing, activated).






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                    4












                    4








                    4






                    I suggest using one of these, which work mostly well for me:



                    using xbindkeys:
                    whenever middle-button is pressed, clear the primary clipboard. At least on my system it is cleared, before the pasting happens.
                    Details: create xbindkeys-config:



                    xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc


                    Paste the following new hotkey:



                    "xclip -i /dev/null"    
                    b:2``


                    Reload xbindkeys (e.g. killall xbindkeys;xbindkeys). Done.



                    using xdotool:
                    Clear the clipboard on window focus change (should work with most windowmanagers). Details:
                    Execute the following command:



                    xdotool search --onlyvisible . behave %@ focus exec xclip -i /dev/null


                    Note that with this command you can still use the primary clipboard within the same window, or pressing middlemouse onto another window BEFORE focusing it (if you don't have "focus follows mouse", or somthing, activated).






                    share|improve this answer












                    I suggest using one of these, which work mostly well for me:



                    using xbindkeys:
                    whenever middle-button is pressed, clear the primary clipboard. At least on my system it is cleared, before the pasting happens.
                    Details: create xbindkeys-config:



                    xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc


                    Paste the following new hotkey:



                    "xclip -i /dev/null"    
                    b:2``


                    Reload xbindkeys (e.g. killall xbindkeys;xbindkeys). Done.



                    using xdotool:
                    Clear the clipboard on window focus change (should work with most windowmanagers). Details:
                    Execute the following command:



                    xdotool search --onlyvisible . behave %@ focus exec xclip -i /dev/null


                    Note that with this command you can still use the primary clipboard within the same window, or pressing middlemouse onto another window BEFORE focusing it (if you don't have "focus follows mouse", or somthing, activated).







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                    answered Feb 22 '16 at 11:10









                    spawn

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                        The best way I've found so far is to use EasyStroke, which can globally intercept middle-button click and allow to behave as middle button only in certain apps.



                        You can add a "group" in EasyStroke to apply this interception in multiple applications at once.
                        I've set to disable middle click in some of my text editors, IDE and MATLAB only and works as intended.



                        Reference:
                        http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11811126&postcount=25



                        Complete EasyStroke How-To:
                        http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/easystroke/wiki/Documentation






                        share|improve this answer





















                        • Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 1 '15 at 18:30










                        • Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 19 '15 at 16:26
















                        3














                        The best way I've found so far is to use EasyStroke, which can globally intercept middle-button click and allow to behave as middle button only in certain apps.



                        You can add a "group" in EasyStroke to apply this interception in multiple applications at once.
                        I've set to disable middle click in some of my text editors, IDE and MATLAB only and works as intended.



                        Reference:
                        http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11811126&postcount=25



                        Complete EasyStroke How-To:
                        http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/easystroke/wiki/Documentation






                        share|improve this answer





















                        • Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 1 '15 at 18:30










                        • Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 19 '15 at 16:26














                        3












                        3








                        3






                        The best way I've found so far is to use EasyStroke, which can globally intercept middle-button click and allow to behave as middle button only in certain apps.



                        You can add a "group" in EasyStroke to apply this interception in multiple applications at once.
                        I've set to disable middle click in some of my text editors, IDE and MATLAB only and works as intended.



                        Reference:
                        http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11811126&postcount=25



                        Complete EasyStroke How-To:
                        http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/easystroke/wiki/Documentation






                        share|improve this answer












                        The best way I've found so far is to use EasyStroke, which can globally intercept middle-button click and allow to behave as middle button only in certain apps.



                        You can add a "group" in EasyStroke to apply this interception in multiple applications at once.
                        I've set to disable middle click in some of my text editors, IDE and MATLAB only and works as intended.



                        Reference:
                        http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11811126&postcount=25



                        Complete EasyStroke How-To:
                        http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/easystroke/wiki/Documentation







                        share|improve this answer












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                        answered Feb 3 '13 at 12:13









                        dbdq

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                        • Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 1 '15 at 18:30










                        • Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 19 '15 at 16:26


















                        • Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 1 '15 at 18:30










                        • Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                          – Marty Fried
                          Aug 19 '15 at 16:26
















                        Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                        – Marty Fried
                        Aug 1 '15 at 18:30




                        Thanks from the future for that tip. At first, I was going to just use xinput to disable it totally, and not need to run some extra program, but EasyStroke made it possible to set groups where I could disable the middle button for certain apps (my editor, mainly), and add gestures to certain other apps and using the middle button. So far, works well (14.04 Gnome fallback).
                        – Marty Fried
                        Aug 1 '15 at 18:30












                        Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                        – Marty Fried
                        Aug 19 '15 at 16:26




                        Added to my comment: after using EasyStroke for a while, I've found that it often fails to block the middle click. Since I haven't been using the gestures, I am abandoning this program for xinput.
                        – Marty Fried
                        Aug 19 '15 at 16:26











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                        This middle mouse button paste behavior is a feature of the X server (and gpm on the text console) and as far as I know at least X.org can't be configured to disable it - all you can do is to change the mapping of the physical mouse buttons as others already suggested.



                        Chances are good that you can configure your touchpad to avoid unwanted middle clicks, see gpointing-device-settings (not installed by default) or the synaptics manpage if you prefer to use your editor for configuration.






                        share|improve this answer


























                          2














                          This middle mouse button paste behavior is a feature of the X server (and gpm on the text console) and as far as I know at least X.org can't be configured to disable it - all you can do is to change the mapping of the physical mouse buttons as others already suggested.



                          Chances are good that you can configure your touchpad to avoid unwanted middle clicks, see gpointing-device-settings (not installed by default) or the synaptics manpage if you prefer to use your editor for configuration.






                          share|improve this answer
























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                            2








                            2






                            This middle mouse button paste behavior is a feature of the X server (and gpm on the text console) and as far as I know at least X.org can't be configured to disable it - all you can do is to change the mapping of the physical mouse buttons as others already suggested.



                            Chances are good that you can configure your touchpad to avoid unwanted middle clicks, see gpointing-device-settings (not installed by default) or the synaptics manpage if you prefer to use your editor for configuration.






                            share|improve this answer












                            This middle mouse button paste behavior is a feature of the X server (and gpm on the text console) and as far as I know at least X.org can't be configured to disable it - all you can do is to change the mapping of the physical mouse buttons as others already suggested.



                            Chances are good that you can configure your touchpad to avoid unwanted middle clicks, see gpointing-device-settings (not installed by default) or the synaptics manpage if you prefer to use your editor for configuration.







                            share|improve this answer












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                            answered Sep 23 '10 at 18:52









                            Florian Diesch

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                                the link below fixed the problem for me.



                                https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example:_Disabling_middle-mouse_button_paste_on_a_scrollwheel_mouse



                                the page refered by the above link has a section for how to disable the middle mouse paste on scrollwheel, by executing few commands the user can fetch the mouse buttons mapping and can also change the mapping.
                                as explained in the page i disabled the the middle button by executing the command:



                                $ xinput set-button-map 4 1 0 3





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                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                  – cpburnz
                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:09
















                                2














                                the link below fixed the problem for me.



                                https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example:_Disabling_middle-mouse_button_paste_on_a_scrollwheel_mouse



                                the page refered by the above link has a section for how to disable the middle mouse paste on scrollwheel, by executing few commands the user can fetch the mouse buttons mapping and can also change the mapping.
                                as explained in the page i disabled the the middle button by executing the command:



                                $ xinput set-button-map 4 1 0 3





                                share|improve this answer



















                                • 4




                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                  – cpburnz
                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:09














                                2












                                2








                                2






                                the link below fixed the problem for me.



                                https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example:_Disabling_middle-mouse_button_paste_on_a_scrollwheel_mouse



                                the page refered by the above link has a section for how to disable the middle mouse paste on scrollwheel, by executing few commands the user can fetch the mouse buttons mapping and can also change the mapping.
                                as explained in the page i disabled the the middle button by executing the command:



                                $ xinput set-button-map 4 1 0 3





                                share|improve this answer














                                the link below fixed the problem for me.



                                https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example:_Disabling_middle-mouse_button_paste_on_a_scrollwheel_mouse



                                the page refered by the above link has a section for how to disable the middle mouse paste on scrollwheel, by executing few commands the user can fetch the mouse buttons mapping and can also change the mapping.
                                as explained in the page i disabled the the middle button by executing the command:



                                $ xinput set-button-map 4 1 0 3






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                                edited May 22 '14 at 8:43

























                                answered Jan 5 '14 at 14:38









                                Ahmad Bawaneh

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                                • 4




                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                  – cpburnz
                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:09














                                • 4




                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                  – cpburnz
                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:09








                                4




                                4




                                The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                – cpburnz
                                Aug 25 '14 at 14:09




                                The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                – cpburnz
                                Aug 25 '14 at 14:09











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                                I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing the mouse! But, as you, I was frustrated that simple button mapping problem can't be solved elegantly by a software fix. Fortunately, I had the problem on my job computer, and my employer owns a variety of spare mouse controllers. It was a no cost fix!



                                I think a proper mouse hardware implementation should not send random middle clicks while scrolling. Recently I found this behaviour to get annoying even while using Windows!



                                Now that I've fixed the hardware bug with the proper hardware solution (change the mouse) I even started an addiction to "paste on middle-click" behaviour!!



                                Happy linuxing!



                                Sincerly,






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                                  I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing the mouse! But, as you, I was frustrated that simple button mapping problem can't be solved elegantly by a software fix. Fortunately, I had the problem on my job computer, and my employer owns a variety of spare mouse controllers. It was a no cost fix!



                                  I think a proper mouse hardware implementation should not send random middle clicks while scrolling. Recently I found this behaviour to get annoying even while using Windows!



                                  Now that I've fixed the hardware bug with the proper hardware solution (change the mouse) I even started an addiction to "paste on middle-click" behaviour!!



                                  Happy linuxing!



                                  Sincerly,






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                                    1








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                                    I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing the mouse! But, as you, I was frustrated that simple button mapping problem can't be solved elegantly by a software fix. Fortunately, I had the problem on my job computer, and my employer owns a variety of spare mouse controllers. It was a no cost fix!



                                    I think a proper mouse hardware implementation should not send random middle clicks while scrolling. Recently I found this behaviour to get annoying even while using Windows!



                                    Now that I've fixed the hardware bug with the proper hardware solution (change the mouse) I even started an addiction to "paste on middle-click" behaviour!!



                                    Happy linuxing!



                                    Sincerly,






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                                    I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing the mouse! But, as you, I was frustrated that simple button mapping problem can't be solved elegantly by a software fix. Fortunately, I had the problem on my job computer, and my employer owns a variety of spare mouse controllers. It was a no cost fix!



                                    I think a proper mouse hardware implementation should not send random middle clicks while scrolling. Recently I found this behaviour to get annoying even while using Windows!



                                    Now that I've fixed the hardware bug with the proper hardware solution (change the mouse) I even started an addiction to "paste on middle-click" behaviour!!



                                    Happy linuxing!



                                    Sincerly,







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                                    answered Aug 16 '12 at 18:44









                                    Jonathan

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                                        SW:
                                        Ubuntu 14.04, with Gnome fall back.
                                        HW: I have a laptop and so the middle button is actually the mouse on/in the laptop.
                                        Solution:
                                        Go to Ubuntu SW center and download Unity Tweak Tool.
                                        Start Tweak Tool. Under the Mouse settings it has switch to turn on/off the middle click insert.
                                        Have a lovely day.






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                                        • I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                          – Marty Fried
                                          Aug 1 '15 at 16:42
















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                                        SW:
                                        Ubuntu 14.04, with Gnome fall back.
                                        HW: I have a laptop and so the middle button is actually the mouse on/in the laptop.
                                        Solution:
                                        Go to Ubuntu SW center and download Unity Tweak Tool.
                                        Start Tweak Tool. Under the Mouse settings it has switch to turn on/off the middle click insert.
                                        Have a lovely day.






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                                        • I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                          – Marty Fried
                                          Aug 1 '15 at 16:42














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                                        1






                                        SW:
                                        Ubuntu 14.04, with Gnome fall back.
                                        HW: I have a laptop and so the middle button is actually the mouse on/in the laptop.
                                        Solution:
                                        Go to Ubuntu SW center and download Unity Tweak Tool.
                                        Start Tweak Tool. Under the Mouse settings it has switch to turn on/off the middle click insert.
                                        Have a lovely day.






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                                        SW:
                                        Ubuntu 14.04, with Gnome fall back.
                                        HW: I have a laptop and so the middle button is actually the mouse on/in the laptop.
                                        Solution:
                                        Go to Ubuntu SW center and download Unity Tweak Tool.
                                        Start Tweak Tool. Under the Mouse settings it has switch to turn on/off the middle click insert.
                                        Have a lovely day.







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                                        user2712329

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                                        • I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                          – Marty Fried
                                          Aug 1 '15 at 16:42


















                                        • I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                          – Marty Fried
                                          Aug 1 '15 at 16:42
















                                        I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                        – Marty Fried
                                        Aug 1 '15 at 16:42




                                        I have the same system. I downloaded Unity Tweak Tool and wasted time looking at every setting, but there was no such setting. Perhaps you meant "Tweak Tool", which is, I think, Gnome Tweak Tool. It has a setting, although it doesn't seem to work.
                                        – Marty Fried
                                        Aug 1 '15 at 16:42











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                                        I tried the xinput-redirection trick, changing the center mouse "button" (actually a wheel) so it acts just like the left mouse button. It still works as a wheel, and has (apparently) stopped pasting things into random places in the middle of my source code as I scroll past.



                                        In my case the command was



                                        xinput set-button-map "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


                                        but YMMV by mouse model.






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                                          I tried the xinput-redirection trick, changing the center mouse "button" (actually a wheel) so it acts just like the left mouse button. It still works as a wheel, and has (apparently) stopped pasting things into random places in the middle of my source code as I scroll past.



                                          In my case the command was



                                          xinput set-button-map "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


                                          but YMMV by mouse model.






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                                            1






                                            I tried the xinput-redirection trick, changing the center mouse "button" (actually a wheel) so it acts just like the left mouse button. It still works as a wheel, and has (apparently) stopped pasting things into random places in the middle of my source code as I scroll past.



                                            In my case the command was



                                            xinput set-button-map "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


                                            but YMMV by mouse model.






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                                            I tried the xinput-redirection trick, changing the center mouse "button" (actually a wheel) so it acts just like the left mouse button. It still works as a wheel, and has (apparently) stopped pasting things into random places in the middle of my source code as I scroll past.



                                            In my case the command was



                                            xinput set-button-map "PixArt USB Optical Mouse" 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


                                            but YMMV by mouse model.







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                                            answered Dec 3 '14 at 20:13









                                            Stephen Bloch

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                                                I may have a partial answer for you, if you are using a lenovo X... with
                                                touchpoint/touchpad.
                                                There is a "known" bug with the synaptics mouse buttons. If you try a USB mouse
                                                and have no problem, but with the touchpad/touchpoint mouse (build into the keyboard) you do have random responses that can delete swaths of text as you type, then this may be the bug I'm talking about.



                                                https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817



                                                If this fits your situation, then add your name to the list of people who have identified this bug, at that bug report. Maybe if there are many more of us reporting this, it would get fixed.






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                                                  I may have a partial answer for you, if you are using a lenovo X... with
                                                  touchpoint/touchpad.
                                                  There is a "known" bug with the synaptics mouse buttons. If you try a USB mouse
                                                  and have no problem, but with the touchpad/touchpoint mouse (build into the keyboard) you do have random responses that can delete swaths of text as you type, then this may be the bug I'm talking about.



                                                  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817



                                                  If this fits your situation, then add your name to the list of people who have identified this bug, at that bug report. Maybe if there are many more of us reporting this, it would get fixed.






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                                                    I may have a partial answer for you, if you are using a lenovo X... with
                                                    touchpoint/touchpad.
                                                    There is a "known" bug with the synaptics mouse buttons. If you try a USB mouse
                                                    and have no problem, but with the touchpad/touchpoint mouse (build into the keyboard) you do have random responses that can delete swaths of text as you type, then this may be the bug I'm talking about.



                                                    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817



                                                    If this fits your situation, then add your name to the list of people who have identified this bug, at that bug report. Maybe if there are many more of us reporting this, it would get fixed.






                                                    share|improve this answer












                                                    I may have a partial answer for you, if you are using a lenovo X... with
                                                    touchpoint/touchpad.
                                                    There is a "known" bug with the synaptics mouse buttons. If you try a USB mouse
                                                    and have no problem, but with the touchpad/touchpoint mouse (build into the keyboard) you do have random responses that can delete swaths of text as you type, then this may be the bug I'm talking about.



                                                    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1506817



                                                    If this fits your situation, then add your name to the list of people who have identified this bug, at that bug report. Maybe if there are many more of us reporting this, it would get fixed.







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                                                    answered Jul 14 '16 at 23:19









                                                    Jont Allen

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                                                        Here's the simplest solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.



                                                        First install sxhkd and xsel.



                                                        Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so



                                                        ~button2
                                                        echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                        ~control + c
                                                        echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                        ~control + x
                                                        echo -n | xsel -n -i


                                                        And that's basically it.



                                                        Now start sxhkd (or configure it to launch on startup). Now, middle mouse will no longer paste anything but will otherwise function like normal. (As long as you use only ctrl+c and ctrl+x to copy things that is, if you copy things with the mouse it can paste once before it returns to normal.)






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                                                          Here's the simplest solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.



                                                          First install sxhkd and xsel.



                                                          Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so



                                                          ~button2
                                                          echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                          ~control + c
                                                          echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                          ~control + x
                                                          echo -n | xsel -n -i


                                                          And that's basically it.



                                                          Now start sxhkd (or configure it to launch on startup). Now, middle mouse will no longer paste anything but will otherwise function like normal. (As long as you use only ctrl+c and ctrl+x to copy things that is, if you copy things with the mouse it can paste once before it returns to normal.)






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                                                            Here's the simplest solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.



                                                            First install sxhkd and xsel.



                                                            Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so



                                                            ~button2
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                            ~control + c
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                            ~control + x
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i


                                                            And that's basically it.



                                                            Now start sxhkd (or configure it to launch on startup). Now, middle mouse will no longer paste anything but will otherwise function like normal. (As long as you use only ctrl+c and ctrl+x to copy things that is, if you copy things with the mouse it can paste once before it returns to normal.)






                                                            share|improve this answer














                                                            Here's the simplest solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.



                                                            First install sxhkd and xsel.



                                                            Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so



                                                            ~button2
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                            ~control + c
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i
                                                            ~control + x
                                                            echo -n | xsel -n -i


                                                            And that's basically it.



                                                            Now start sxhkd (or configure it to launch on startup). Now, middle mouse will no longer paste anything but will otherwise function like normal. (As long as you use only ctrl+c and ctrl+x to copy things that is, if you copy things with the mouse it can paste once before it returns to normal.)







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                                                            answered Sep 30 at 22:02









                                                            Cestarian

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                                                                It's more than a gnome feature, i think it works almost everywhere, it works in the console too, and I think it worked even in my "Linux from Scratch".



                                                                So it's really a basic feature perhaps even somewhere in the kernel.



                                                                BTW: It's really useful, and it's not the regular paste like Ctrl + V, everything that is marked with the cursor goes in a second storage and with middleclick can paste, what you marked last.






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                                                                  BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                  – phiphi
                                                                  Sep 23 '10 at 18:13










                                                                • It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                  – Matt Fletcher
                                                                  Sep 13 '13 at 9:55
















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                                                                It's more than a gnome feature, i think it works almost everywhere, it works in the console too, and I think it worked even in my "Linux from Scratch".



                                                                So it's really a basic feature perhaps even somewhere in the kernel.



                                                                BTW: It's really useful, and it's not the regular paste like Ctrl + V, everything that is marked with the cursor goes in a second storage and with middleclick can paste, what you marked last.






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                                                                  BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                  – phiphi
                                                                  Sep 23 '10 at 18:13










                                                                • It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                  – Matt Fletcher
                                                                  Sep 13 '13 at 9:55














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                                                                It's more than a gnome feature, i think it works almost everywhere, it works in the console too, and I think it worked even in my "Linux from Scratch".



                                                                So it's really a basic feature perhaps even somewhere in the kernel.



                                                                BTW: It's really useful, and it's not the regular paste like Ctrl + V, everything that is marked with the cursor goes in a second storage and with middleclick can paste, what you marked last.






                                                                share|improve this answer












                                                                It's more than a gnome feature, i think it works almost everywhere, it works in the console too, and I think it worked even in my "Linux from Scratch".



                                                                So it's really a basic feature perhaps even somewhere in the kernel.



                                                                BTW: It's really useful, and it's not the regular paste like Ctrl + V, everything that is marked with the cursor goes in a second storage and with middleclick can paste, what you marked last.







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                                                                phiphi

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                                                                  BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                  – phiphi
                                                                  Sep 23 '10 at 18:13










                                                                • It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                  – Matt Fletcher
                                                                  Sep 13 '13 at 9:55














                                                                • 1




                                                                  BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                  – phiphi
                                                                  Sep 23 '10 at 18:13










                                                                • It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                  – Matt Fletcher
                                                                  Sep 13 '13 at 9:55








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                                                                BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                – phiphi
                                                                Sep 23 '10 at 18:13




                                                                BTW2: It pastes where you click, not where the Text cursor is.
                                                                – phiphi
                                                                Sep 23 '10 at 18:13












                                                                It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                – Matt Fletcher
                                                                Sep 13 '13 at 9:55




                                                                It's great that you have that opinion, but that's not what the OP was asking!
                                                                – Matt Fletcher
                                                                Sep 13 '13 at 9:55











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                                                                Using what I learned in the posts above, this bash one-liner works perfectly for me...



                                                                mouse_id=$(xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/[^0-9]//g') && xinput set-button-map "$mouse_id" 1 0 3





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                                                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                  – cpburnz
                                                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:10










                                                                • I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                  – Kurt
                                                                  Oct 23 at 21:04
















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                                                                Using what I learned in the posts above, this bash one-liner works perfectly for me...



                                                                mouse_id=$(xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/[^0-9]//g') && xinput set-button-map "$mouse_id" 1 0 3





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                                                                • 1




                                                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                  – cpburnz
                                                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:10










                                                                • I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                  – Kurt
                                                                  Oct 23 at 21:04














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                                                                Using what I learned in the posts above, this bash one-liner works perfectly for me...



                                                                mouse_id=$(xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/[^0-9]//g') && xinput set-button-map "$mouse_id" 1 0 3





                                                                share|improve this answer












                                                                Using what I learned in the posts above, this bash one-liner works perfectly for me...



                                                                mouse_id=$(xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/[^0-9]//g') && xinput set-button-map "$mouse_id" 1 0 3






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                                                                answered Dec 4 '13 at 16:42









                                                                Scott

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                                                                • 1




                                                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                  – cpburnz
                                                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:10










                                                                • I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                  – Kurt
                                                                  Oct 23 at 21:04














                                                                • 1




                                                                  The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                  – cpburnz
                                                                  Aug 25 '14 at 14:10










                                                                • I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                  – Kurt
                                                                  Oct 23 at 21:04








                                                                1




                                                                1




                                                                The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                – cpburnz
                                                                Aug 25 '14 at 14:10




                                                                The OP specifically mentioned he did not want to completely disable the middle click button.
                                                                – cpburnz
                                                                Aug 25 '14 at 14:10












                                                                I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                – Kurt
                                                                Oct 23 at 21:04




                                                                I modified your one-liner to support multiple mice: xinput list | grep 'Mouse' | grep -o 'id=[0-9]*' | grep -o '[0-9]*' | xargs -i xinput set-button-map "{}" 1 0 3
                                                                – Kurt
                                                                Oct 23 at 21:04











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                                                                You might want to try emulating a two button mouse. With a two button mouse you paste by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time (rather then the scroll wheel).



                                                                Install gpointing-device-settings:



                                                                sudo aptitude install gpointing-device-settings


                                                                http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings



                                                                Alternately, if you do not wish to install gpointing-device-settings , and you are not bothered by command line options, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input On this wiki page there are several command line / configuration options, choose the one you prefer.






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                                                                • Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                  – neildeadman
                                                                  Jan 13 '12 at 8:12










                                                                • App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                  – HDave
                                                                  Feb 7 '14 at 19:48
















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                                                                You might want to try emulating a two button mouse. With a two button mouse you paste by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time (rather then the scroll wheel).



                                                                Install gpointing-device-settings:



                                                                sudo aptitude install gpointing-device-settings


                                                                http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings



                                                                Alternately, if you do not wish to install gpointing-device-settings , and you are not bothered by command line options, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input On this wiki page there are several command line / configuration options, choose the one you prefer.






                                                                share|improve this answer























                                                                • Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                  – neildeadman
                                                                  Jan 13 '12 at 8:12










                                                                • App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                  – HDave
                                                                  Feb 7 '14 at 19:48














                                                                0












                                                                0








                                                                0






                                                                You might want to try emulating a two button mouse. With a two button mouse you paste by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time (rather then the scroll wheel).



                                                                Install gpointing-device-settings:



                                                                sudo aptitude install gpointing-device-settings


                                                                http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings



                                                                Alternately, if you do not wish to install gpointing-device-settings , and you are not bothered by command line options, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input On this wiki page there are several command line / configuration options, choose the one you prefer.






                                                                share|improve this answer














                                                                You might want to try emulating a two button mouse. With a two button mouse you paste by clicking both mouse buttons at the same time (rather then the scroll wheel).



                                                                Install gpointing-device-settings:



                                                                sudo aptitude install gpointing-device-settings


                                                                http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings



                                                                Alternately, if you do not wish to install gpointing-device-settings , and you are not bothered by command line options, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input On this wiki page there are several command line / configuration options, choose the one you prefer.







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                                                                answered Jan 12 '12 at 18:47









                                                                Panther

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                                                                • Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                  – neildeadman
                                                                  Jan 13 '12 at 8:12










                                                                • App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                  – HDave
                                                                  Feb 7 '14 at 19:48


















                                                                • Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                  – neildeadman
                                                                  Jan 13 '12 at 8:12










                                                                • App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                  – HDave
                                                                  Feb 7 '14 at 19:48
















                                                                Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                – neildeadman
                                                                Jan 13 '12 at 8:12




                                                                Will this still allow me to scroll in apps (such as Chrome) with the wheel though?? I'll give it a try, thanks!
                                                                – neildeadman
                                                                Jan 13 '12 at 8:12












                                                                App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                – HDave
                                                                Feb 7 '14 at 19:48




                                                                App installs, but cannot see how it could help. Link to docs is broken.
                                                                – HDave
                                                                Feb 7 '14 at 19:48











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                                                                That's a good question, which i don't have an answer for (yet).
                                                                A quick and dirty workaround is to remap it NOT to 0, but to 1.
                                                                This way, it turns middle-"click" to left click, and does not affect your scroller...
                                                                It is so far the best I can think of.



                                                                Note:This information came from Ubuntu Forums, not my own noggin! :)






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                                                                  That's a good question, which i don't have an answer for (yet).
                                                                  A quick and dirty workaround is to remap it NOT to 0, but to 1.
                                                                  This way, it turns middle-"click" to left click, and does not affect your scroller...
                                                                  It is so far the best I can think of.



                                                                  Note:This information came from Ubuntu Forums, not my own noggin! :)






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                                                                    -1








                                                                    -1






                                                                    That's a good question, which i don't have an answer for (yet).
                                                                    A quick and dirty workaround is to remap it NOT to 0, but to 1.
                                                                    This way, it turns middle-"click" to left click, and does not affect your scroller...
                                                                    It is so far the best I can think of.



                                                                    Note:This information came from Ubuntu Forums, not my own noggin! :)






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                                                                    That's a good question, which i don't have an answer for (yet).
                                                                    A quick and dirty workaround is to remap it NOT to 0, but to 1.
                                                                    This way, it turns middle-"click" to left click, and does not affect your scroller...
                                                                    It is so far the best I can think of.



                                                                    Note:This information came from Ubuntu Forums, not my own noggin! :)







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                                                                        did you check out gpm ? More info at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/gpm.8.html. Available via sudo aptitude install gpm on lucid. I don't see the disable-paste program in the ubuntu package however, the -A option may be worth giving a try.






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                                                                          I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
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                                                                        did you check out gpm ? More info at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/gpm.8.html. Available via sudo aptitude install gpm on lucid. I don't see the disable-paste program in the ubuntu package however, the -A option may be worth giving a try.






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                                                                          I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
                                                                          – levesque
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                                                                        did you check out gpm ? More info at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/gpm.8.html. Available via sudo aptitude install gpm on lucid. I don't see the disable-paste program in the ubuntu package however, the -A option may be worth giving a try.






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                                                                        did you check out gpm ? More info at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/gpm.8.html. Available via sudo aptitude install gpm on lucid. I don't see the disable-paste program in the ubuntu package however, the -A option may be worth giving a try.







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                                                                        answered Sep 21 '10 at 16:27









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                                                                          I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
                                                                          – levesque
                                                                          Sep 21 '10 at 16:35
















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                                                                          I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
                                                                          – levesque
                                                                          Sep 21 '10 at 16:35










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                                                                        I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
                                                                        – levesque
                                                                        Sep 21 '10 at 16:35






                                                                        I don't understand gpm.. in the package description they state: "This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console." What does this have to do with applications running in windowed mode?
                                                                        – levesque
                                                                        Sep 21 '10 at 16:35







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