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I've found plenty of forum posts from other people complaining about
this but I couldn't find an existing but report in Launchpad.

It baffles me to find that there is no way to disable the middle-click
screen buffer "paste" feature without breaking the middle-click button
on the mouse altogether.  I'm sure there are lots of people who think
it's nifty.  However, for me and others, it is just annoying.

If I am scrolling in a text editor like Gedit and the middle-click
button actually gets pressed, it often pastes a chunk of text in the
middle of the document and I don't notice because I scroll right by.
This leads to trouble later on.

My searching indicates that a common solution to this problem is to re-
map the middle-click button to something else (so that it behaves like
either the left or right button, or just does nothing), using xinput or
by editing Xorg.conf.  However, this breaks other applications that use
the middle mouse button for other things (opening and closing tabs in
Firefox, middle-click scroll).

There should be a solution to this problem other than "map the middle-
click button to something else" and "get a new mouse that doesn't
accidentally click."  I don't care if it's setting an option in an
obscure text file.


To reproduce:

 - Open Gedit.
 - Type some text.
 - Select some text.
 - Middle-click somewhere in the document.
 - Selected text is copied to where you middle-clicked.
 - No (documented) way to disable this behavior without re-mapping the middle-mouse button, breaking other middle-click functionality.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.207
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 15 15:00:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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Impossible to disable middle-click paste without breaking the middle mouse button
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735665
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