X11 copy and paste is broken

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Since upgrading to 10.10, X11 copy and paste no longer works.

To reproduce:

Highlight any text from anywhere
Middle click in a writable edit box

Specific reproduction:
Open a terminal
Highlight any text in that terminal
Middle click in that terminal

Observe no paste.

[Troy A. Griffitts (scribe)]

Turns out the bug seems to be that my middle mouse button has simply stopped working for any purpose on Ubuntu 10.10

[Steve (sjc-carpanet)]

I am having the same issue. It worked fine before I upgraded, now I am running 10.10 and it doesn't work anymore.

I am generally trying to copy from gnome-terminal and paste into either another terminal, or into a windows app via RDP. This all worked before the upgrade.

Not really sure what info to add to this, I looked for an X config of some sort like the ones I used to have to edit before I used Ubuntu but, the X display doesn't seem to have a config that I can find anymore.

[Steve (sjc-carpanet)]

A bit more thinking and googling about middle button rather than copy/paste and I found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1603373

xinput test 9 (my touchpad device) shows that both left and middle buttons map to button 1.

The temporary fix for this via: xinput set-button-map 9 1 2 3
did not change this behavior at all, and test still shows the mapping of 1 for middle button.

[Troy A. Griffitts (scribe)]

Dear Steve,

This fixed it for me:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/612591/comments/11

On 11/03/2010 04:29 PM, Steve wrote:
> A bit more thinking and googling about middle button rather than copy/paste and I found this:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1603373
>
> xinput test 9 (my touchpad device) shows that both left and middle
> buttons map to button 1.
>
> The temporary fix for this via: xinput set-button-map 9 1 2 3
> did not change this behavior at all, and test still shows the mapping of 1 for middle button.
>

[komputes (komputes)]

Hello Troy,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Thank you for pointing to a workaround which has helped you. However, could you provide a bit more information about the computer model you are using (or mouse model if external). Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 660700
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs. Thank you.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.