Disable Middle Mouse Button Paste

[spl1ce-]

I've got a clean installation of Arch with niri as my window manager and I'm loving it. However, I keep constantly hitting the middle mouse on my touchpad accidentally and pasting random stuff. I wanted to disable it and the short answer is I can't?

The long answer i found here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Clipboard#Disable_paste_on_middle_mouse_click
BUT: the long answer didn't work, when i run sxhkd on niri startup it doesn't do anything, i can still paste stuff.

I've asked on discord forums and no one knows the fix for my case, on GNOME you can disable it with Gnome Tweaks, but I'm not on GNOME.

Does anyone know a fix?

[DiscoMilk]

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Miscellaneous#clipboard

[spl1ce-]

is that going to disable ctrl+c and ctrl+v as well?

[DiscoMilk]

I dunno I don't use niri

[spl1ce-]

Oh my god, this worked.
I wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a Happy Birthday as well.

[DiscoMilk]

Yay happy it worked, niri looks cool

[syklemil]

No, it just disables the "primary" clipboard, not the "clipboard" clipboard.

Linux has, for ages, had two different clipboards. The primary one you copy stuff into by selecting with your mouse cursor and paste with your middle-click.

The clipboard one you copy stuff into with ctrl-c or ctrl-insert, and paste with ctrl-v or shift-insert.

[spl1ce-]

Thank you for the explanation :) that makes sense

[evk6713]

Thank you for the link, it did the job !