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I have a Lenovo thinkpad t510, with ubuntu 15.10. When i first installed, I was able to use the middle click mouse button to copy and paste in the terminal. This button no longer does this, or anyother function evidently. I opened up xev and tried clicking the middle mouse button. Nothing happened. I tried enabling and disabling the track pad. The same results.

I looked in the mouse configure section, under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> mouse. I saw nothing about a middle mouse button.

I really liked the middle mouse button click copy and paste, how should I go about fixing this?

I am using Ubuntu Mate 15.10.

j0h
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  • possible duplicated http://askubuntu.com/questions/302077/how-to-enable-paste-in-terminal-with-middle-mouse-button – Mohamed Slama Jun 06 '16 at 21:19
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    That solution does nothing for my problem. It is a similar issue, but Im not sure that it is the same. The Thinkpad keys are not exactly a track pad. – j0h Jun 06 '16 at 21:39

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I found this helpful to resolve the middle mouse button and copy-paste issue:

https://askubuntu.com/a/902976/354678

Looks like Ubuntu and XUbuntu in 17.10 still have the same issue like 12.04. There are feasible solutions.

opinion_no9
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