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22 questions linked to/from How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
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Middle click paste disable globally
Running Ubuntu 22.04. I want to disable all forms of middle click paste, but keep middle button working for scroll, tab closing, etc. I just want it not to paste anything anywhere.
I tried many ...
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Kubuntu Middle Mouse Button pasting last highlighted text
Pressing the middle mouse button automatically pastes whatever the last highlighted text was. Note that I'm not talking about the clipboard or copied text, just the simple act of highlighting text ...
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Disable middle-click paste on kde-plasma
The last thing I highlighted is pasted when I middle-click. I changed it so it only shows the last thing that I copied instead of highlighted, but for middle click it's still like that. I want to ...
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Middle click paste - Disable
Holy moly guys ...
This question has been asked on all boards everywhere on the internet.
I've read everything and I've gone beyond page 2 on Google search results
I am pleading can someone help me ...
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How do I disable middle mouse click pasting clipboard?
I am running Kubuntu 20.04.
I just noticed that clicking the middle mouse button pastes my clipboard; I don't like that.
I cannot find a way to disable this behaviour. I would like to keep middle ...
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How to disable Middle Mouse Paste on Ubuntu automatically on startup
I'm trying to make a script run on startup, so that I don't have to do it manually every time, with a terminal window being open constantly.
This is the script: anti-midmouse-paste.sh
#!/bin/bash
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How to disable middle button paste in Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS?
I have installed Tweaks and turned Middle Click Paste off. That doesn't help.
I have also followed all of the recommendations in these posts:
How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
However, ...
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Random pieces of text pasted in code files
Quite often, when I'm writing small programs in e.g. MATLAb or Atom/Juno (on Ubuntu 20.04), I get errors because a a certain variable is not recognized. Upon taking a closer look, the origin seems to ...
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gedit: Clipboard content gets pasted into text being edited without user warning
gedit is pasting some content (possibly clip board) into text being edited without warning me. And this happens when I am editing source code (*.f90 files) making it very dangerous.
This used to ...
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xsel -cp clears the selected text
I'm trying to disable middle click to paste, and having tried many options and none working effectively, I am trying to use a script with xsel is a loop to clear the contents of the primary clipbord.
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Change behavior of middle mouse button in Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity
I am trying to figure out to turn off the function behind middle mouse button which inserts whatever text I have copied before into the document I click with that button. As the button of my mouse is ...
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How to disable mouse wheel paste? [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with the Unity desktop. The middle wheel of my mouse inserts text whenever I klick it. This is quite a disturbing feature, as the mouse I use has quite a fragile mouse wheel button, ...
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Middle mouse key pastes last selected text
I've started to experience an issue with my middle mouse key (scroll wheel press) and selections.
If I select a text, anywhere, it seems to put it into some sort of secondary clipboard without me ...
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Disable mouse middle button click paste on KDE, keeping that button working
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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Is it possible to get the first click on an inactive window to not register?
On OS X (or I guess we're calling it macOS now) if I click on an inactive window, it does not register the click, but simply makes that window the active window. For example, if I click on a text ...
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