SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. mouse copy sample text 2. press middle button 3. nothing pasted OBSERVED RESULT My middle mouse button can't event , middle button cannot paste the selected text. I've configured middle button in konsole, gnome-tweaks, and it doesn't work My kde version 5.20.3 ... you can see below Operating System: Fedora 33 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.9.14 OS Type: 64-bit And xinput, $ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech Wireless Keyboard PID:4023 id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Logitech Wireless Keyboard PID:4023 id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] Checking in another way, I was surprised because, $ xev | grep button state 0x10, button 1, same_screen YES state 0x110, button 1, same_screen YES state 0x10, button 3, same_screen YES state 0x410, button 3, same_screen YES state 0x10, button 1, same_screen YES state 0x110, button 1, same_screen YES but, NO event pressed middle button ! and using libinput, same problem $ libinput list-devices Device: Logitech Wireless Mouse Kernel: /dev/input/event3 Group: 4 Seat: seat0, default Capabilities: pointer Tap-to-click: n/a Tap-and-drag: n/a Tap drag lock: n/a Left-handed: disabled Nat.scrolling: disabled Middle emulation: disabled Calibration: n/a Scroll methods: button Click methods: none Disable-w-typing: n/a Accel profiles: flat *adaptive Rotation: n/a and then, $libinput debug-events --device /dev/input/event3 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +1.955s BTN_LEFT (272) pressed, seat count: 1 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +2.069s BTN_LEFT (272) released, seat count: 0 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +2.125s BTN_LEFT (272) pressed, seat count: 1 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +3.575s BTN_RIGHT (273) released, seat count: 0 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +3.655s BTN_RIGHT (273) pressed, seat count: 1 event3 POINTER_BUTTON +3.777s BTN_RIGHT (273) released, seat count: 0 no event pressing middle button... what can i do to enable middle mouse button to paste selected text? Tx EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: fedora 33 KDE wayland (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We've implemented the primary-selection protocol, however up to some point GTK was using its own proprietary primary selection protocol. Starting with 3.24.24, this issue should be gone.