[Solution in Post] Disabling middle click pasting (KDE)

[tidal token]

I want to disable middle click pasting. Preferably I would like to do it system-wide, but I am mostly concerned about disabling it in Chromium/Electron (without extensions), as I have middle click auto-scrolling enabled with --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll, which is annoying as it pastes every time I use my middle mouse button to scroll.

I am using KDE Plasma, and I do not want to disable middle clicking.

Solution

1. Build XMousePasteBlock version 1.2: https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock/releases/tag/1.2

• make all
• make install

The latest (1.3) currently has an issue (https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock/issues/16) that makes it seemingly not work.
You can confirm it is installed and in $PATH with which xmousepasteblock.

2. Check if ~/.config/klipperrc exists. If so, skip to the next step. If not, right click on the clipboard icon in the system tray and select configure clipboard. Change any setting (the easiest would be to change the history size) and click Apply & OK.
3. Edit ~/.config/klipperrc with your preferred editor. Under [General], add this: NoEmptyClipboard=false
4. Open the system settings program and navigate to the 'Startup and Shutdown' option, and then select the 'Autostart' section.
5. Add -> Add Application -> (path to XMousePasteBlock here, like /usr/bin/xmousepasteblock)
6. Reboot or log in and out (I would prefer to reboot just to make sure)
7. Confirm that the process is running with ps aux | grep -i (PATH TO XMOUSEBLOCK)

Note: Only tested on KDE Plasma. Credit to https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock/issues/17#issuecomment-1371784589 for most of the solution. Also, setting the clipboard history size too low seemingly causes issues, so I set it to 5.

[torpid quest]

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste false

[tidal token]

does that work in plasma?

i presume not

[torpid quest]

prolly only works in apps using gtk

oh ig that's not systemwide

but it should work in chromium

[tidal token]

doesn't really matter as long as chromium/electron is effected

do i have to re-login?

[torpid quest]

i'd assume you just have to restart the app

[tidal token]

i'll try thx

[torpid quest]

yw

[tidal token]

didn't seem to work

i guess it only works for gnome?

[torpid quest]

yeah looks like it's only for gnome apps

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

try that

dont restart or anything

[tidal token]

does that just disable right click tho?

[torpid quest]

not according to the site

just try it

[tidal token]

yeah that just disabled middle click

[torpid quest]

neat

well there you go

... close

[tidal token]

well no cuz then i can't auto scroll

[crude haven]

#9639 📣 If your issue is solved, please prepend [SOLVED] to the beginning of this thread's title. Then, if possible, archive the thread.

[tidal token]

i can't use middle click

[torpid quest]

oh that's what you mean

um

[tidal token]

ye sorry

[torpid quest]

ill check

[torpid quest]

do you know about ctrl clicking

[tidal token]

?

[torpid quest]

have you ever tried using ctrl click instead of middle click

also what if you run disable-paste first

[tidal token]

i don't really want to and then i can't middle click auto scroll

[tidal token]

wdym?

[torpid quest]

the command

before middle clicking

[torpid quest]

oh right autoscroll

[tidal token]

idk tbh

gnome can disable middle click paste, hopefully kde can somehow

[tidal token]

could of fixed it, gonna test now

installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmousepasteblock-git and then followed https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock/issues/17#issuecomment-1371784589

that worked

now i have auto-scrolling on discord

[Solved] Disabling middle click pasting (KDE)

idk it seems a bit buggy, i will look into it tomorrow, but not gonna archive it yet

[torpid quest]

xorg is dumb as hell

[tidal token]

probably can't do the same thing on wayland lol

[Sort of Solved] Disabling middle click pasting (KDE)

it's pretty buggy ngl

half of the time it doesn't work

[torpid quest]

oh

[tidal token]

downgraded to 1.2 and it's working

https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock/issues/16

well it's working sort of better, but it's still bad

Disabling middle click pasting (KDE)

copying might just not work sometimes or pasting

idk why

i have to ctrl + c or ctrl + v a bunch for it to work most of the time

@wintry atlas i saw you in the github issues for this project and that you are were trying to do the same thing as me, do you know how to fix this? sorry to disturb

[tidal token]

okay i think i fixed it by increasing the history size

[Solution in Post] Disabling middle click pasting (KDE)

[tidal token]

check the original post, if anyone else sees this and wants the solution

thx for the help

[cosmic wind]

Why is this overcomplicated solution? Just install xmousepasteblock and make it run on startup and you are done

Works for discord, gnome, kde, whatever

[wintry atlas]

ok so first

go get git from pacman

[wintry atlas]

then git clone xmousepasteblock from github

[cosmic wind]

😐

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmousepasteblock-git

[tidal token]

yeah that didn't work

1.3 is broken for me and others, and i had to also configure klipper

[tidal token]

i mean, the aur package is already a git package, but the latest git (1.3) doesn't work

[cosmic wind]

you install 1.2

[tidal token]

yes

[cosmic wind]

and then it works

[tidal token]

that's what it says in the solution i put

and to also configure klipper

as it's required on plasma

[cosmic wind]

alr then

so thats just kde thing

[tidal token]

ye

klipper is annoying