Middle click paste from touchpad sometimes stops working

[Michael Thayer]

Quite often (subjectively nearly always) when I am using my laptop - Dell Latitude E7440 - undocked with the internal touch pad, after a while middle click paste stops working in gnome-terminal. I can middle-click paste in e.g. Firefox, but neither from nor to gnome-terminal. I have not seen this while docked with an external mouse.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.0.0-040000rc2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 18 08:30:11 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-01 (321 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

Update: I noticed that I was unable to select and paste URLs and parts of URLs from Firefox to Pidgin this morning. I naively assume that it is the same issue.

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

Looks like a case of Problem between Keyboard and Chair. I notice that middle clicks work when I release the button very quickly. It is hard to say now of course, I think that that was not necessary previously, which is what mislead me. I will leave it up to others whether to keep this open or close it.