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I have a Dell Latitude 7480 and I run Void with Gnome Wayland (v41.3 at the time of my writing). I use the trackpoint heavily, but pressing the middle (scroll) button without moving the trackpoint causes the computer to paste from the middle-click clipboard. This causes lots of accidental pastes, which is very annoying and a privacy disaster.

How do I stop this from happening?

LessThanMe
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Normally, this is a gnome setting and works e.g. on Ubuntu. But it only works partially on Void. One way to change it is:

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

On void this works for e.g. Gedit. On the other hand Firefox and Chrome seem to ignore the setting.
In Firefox it is possible to change middlemouse.paste in about:config to toggle the behavior.

Instead of gsettings, you can use graphical tools, e.g. dconf-editor or gnome-tweak-tool.

Maybe someone can come up with a better solution than doing the configuration in the browser.

Glorfindel
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Paul Smith
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  • Yeah I'd already tried this, and didn't observe any change. On close inspection, it seems to work for some apps (Gedit notably) but not Chrome or Firefox :( – LessThanMe Feb 13 '22 at 23:07
  • Ok, thanks for that extra information. Maybe I will have time to test in a vm with void. – Paul Smith Feb 16 '22 at 08:42
  • I am able to reproduce your error. Only idea I found so far: In Firefox `about:config` disable `middlemouse.paste`. Found [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/443066/gnome-gtk-disable-middle-click-paste-via-terminal). It is more of a work around though. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out, why the settings works correctly on Ubuntu, but not on void. – Paul Smith Feb 16 '22 at 19:05