A bit more thinking and googling about middle button rather than copy/paste and I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1603373
xinput test 9 (my touchpad device) shows that both left and middle buttons map to button 1. The temporary fix for this via: xinput set-button-map 9 1 2 3 did not change this behavior at all, and test still shows the mapping of 1 for middle button. -- X11 copy and paste is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660700 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs