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How can I disable the wheel-button paste feature in Ubuntu?

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Mar 15, 20266015 views
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In Ubuntu, the mouse middle-button (wheel-button) pastes the clipboard contents when clicked. When I'm scrolling it keeps pasting things between my codes and most times I don't notice. I can solve this problem temporarily with doing this. But whenever I reboot the my computer, the behavior comes ba…

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Fix for: How can I disable the wheel-button paste feature in Ubuntu?

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Create a file in The easiest way would be to copy an existing autostart .desktop entry and change the exec line to run the xinput command needed to switch off paste. Once done, this will execute each time you login.

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