How to disable mouse middle button click paste (AKA PRIMARY selection buffer), but keep that button working?
My system: Ubuntu 16.04 with KDE v5.8.5.
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see Disabling middle mouse button. Your question currently looks to be a duplicate of this question. If there is a significant difference please clarify your question. – J. Starnes Sep 21 '17 at 04:23
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Related posts: How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?, Any updates on disabling middle-click paste? have answers covering different solutions. – Nov 17 '17 at 10:26
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Please post an update and whether you were able to solve this. If applicable, post an answer and accept it. – simlev Nov 16 '18 at 10:33
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Did you tried this? More info here. If this question doesn't ask specifically for KDE seems a duplicate of this one mentioned by @clearkimura. – Pablo Bianchi Mar 08 '19 at 05:42
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There is are answers for the same question here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/4507/how-do-i-disable-middle-mouse-button-click-paste – FineCoder2120 Oct 07 '21 at 07:21
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You can install Klipper and turn on settings "ignore mouse selection".
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1This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. - From Review – ThunderBird Dec 10 '21 at 21:02
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From what I can find, the issue stems from the X Window System (X11). It seems to have its own clipboard which pastes on middle-mouse click. Unfortunately, this does not seem configurable.
I have seen people try clear this clipboard through various hacks (infinite loops that clear it, rebinding, etc...) but I reckon it is easiest to just download something maintained by someone else rather than trying to work around all these edge-cases. I use this: https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock
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I know this is AskUbuntu, but I wrote a guide on how to install this on Arch if anyone needs it: https://gist.github.com/LiamPerson/2ac59f2cf24c4f7a358af2c6989c5f22 – Liam Pillay Dec 11 '24 at 04:56