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I am running version 16.04.2 version of Ubuntu and Unity Desktop and have my touch pad disabled in System Settings. My mouse has 2 buttons and a middle wheel.

When I highlight something and press the middle wheel, whatever was highlighted gets pasted as expected.

But, pasting also used to work when I press the left and right button together. This is no longer working. When I press the left and right buttons together what comes up is the popup menu which has 'Open Terminal'.

Looking at How can I paste text by pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time?, it seems like I need to enable middle button emulation by running the gpointing-device-settings command.

This command is no longer found in the latest version of Ubuntu.

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  • See http://askubuntu.com/questions/783229/is-gpointing-device-settings-in-ubuntu-16-04 – QwertyChouskie Feb 15 '17 at 21:08
  • Used the above and installed libgpds0 and gpointing-device-settings, and enabled middle button emulation and my problem is solved. Thanks. – user3477071 Feb 15 '17 at 21:15
  • Seemed to work before but not after reboot. Running gpointing-device-settings now produces two identical errors in the console: An X Error occurred. The error was BadAtom(invalid Atom parameter). In the device settings window that comes up, I have 'Use middle button emulation' checked and 'Use wheel emulation' unchecked. – user3477071 Feb 15 '17 at 21:32
  • Maybe look at some of the command line options at http://askubuntu.com/questions/160164/how-do-i-enable-middle-mouse-button-emulation-in-12-04-lts – QwertyChouskie Feb 15 '17 at 21:36
  • Also see http://askubuntu.com/questions/456452/ubuntu-14-04-how-to-set-middle-mouse-emulation-no-taps-real-buttons – QwertyChouskie Feb 15 '17 at 21:36
  • The above link helped. Created /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/middle-mouse-button.conf and rebooted and paste works fine after reboot. Thanks. – user3477071 Feb 15 '17 at 21:52

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