My Debian machine...

[Matt Graham]

On 2021-08-23 13:04, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> new Debian 10 machine [...] I noticed the other day my
> center mouse click would not paste the contents of a
> highlighted text. It will copy and right click paste,
> but not left-click copy, center mouse roller paste to
> anything.
> 
> What happened? How do you fix that?

Start xev from an xterm or other terminal emulator.  Position the mouse 
pointer in the small window that xev generates.  Middle-click.  You 
should see a ButtonPress event of button 2, then a ButtonRelease event 
of button 2.  If you don't, what do you see?  Individual applications 
can do what they want when they receive a button 2 event, though the 
default is "paste selection".  konsole can be set to middle-click "paste 
clipboard" instead if you want.

Which WM/DE are you using?  Have you re-mapped the default mouse 
settings?  I thought that Unity or some other less useful DEs disabled 
button 2 text pasting to be "friendly".

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