How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
I use gnome-tweak-tool for disabling middle button paste in Ubuntu 16.04.
Install it
sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool
Run it by searching "tweak tool" in installed apps or just type
gnome-tweak-tool
in a terminal.- Go to "Keyboard and mouse" -> "Middle-click paste"
Turn off.
That's it.
Or using just CLI
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste false
Tested on 16.04.
I realise that this is not exactly the answer you want, but you can turn this off in Firefox (e.g. if you don't mind the feature elsewhere, but still want middle click in Firefox to open links in new tabs)
In about:config, set
middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
middlemouse.paste false
Not what you asked, but as this question is linked to from a few places I hope someone finds this answer useful.
Jared Robinson gave a simple solution that works on my machine:
Run the following command:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
To persist this behavior, edit ~/.Xmodmap and add
pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9