As a coder, this is a really annoying feature. I am most of the time in
a Mumble channel chatting to friends as well as coding. My talk button
is set to my middle mouse button and each time I chat I unknowingly
paste clipboard data into my code. This causes the compiler to freak out
and has me tracking down the code that the Middle Mouse Paste feature
has pasted into my scripts!
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735665
Title:
Impossible to disable middle-click paste without breaking the middle
mouse button
Status in Gnome Settings Daemon:
Confirmed
Status in X.Org X server:
Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
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
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