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    Middle-click to insert selection is fundamentally part of the way X11 works; see http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html. Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 22:44
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    I've not seen any trivial way to do this without nuking the middle mouse button altogether or hacking X or screwing with the normal clipboard as well, so my suggested "solution" is just to learn to use the middle mouse button properly. It's incredibly convenient to be able to highlight a text URL anywhere and go to it by middle clicking in my (FF) browser window. Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 23:51
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    @ephemient "Middle-click to insert selection is fundamentally part of the way X11 works" ... way back when we had Sun Optical Mouses that needed about 1 pound of pressure on the middle button to get signal. Today the middle button is on hair trigger and moreover used as a wheel, this "fundamental" has to go (as quite a lot of "fundamental" stuff in X btw.) Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 14:44
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    I feel like the ability to disable whatever you want is an even more fundamental aspect of Linux. Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 16:29
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    Step 1: write complex software for 5h, step 2: try to complie.. Ooops, something goes really wrong.. Step 3: check your code for 1h.. Step 4: Find you inserted code in a header by pressing middle-click. Conclusion: Middle click paste needs to go! Commented Nov 30, 2021 at 14:24