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Hello,

I got my T60's trackpoint middle button to scroll like I wanted it to and now I learn that instead of the middle button paste that I am accustomed to in linux is accomplished by pressing the 2 outer buttons of the trackpoint mouse buttons. I use irssi as my irc client and I used to be able to highlight a url then just move the mouse cursor over my open firefox browser window and press the middle button and it would automatically go to that page. I am not getting the same function now with the 2 outer buttons acting as my paste function. Paste works perfectly in all other cases with the 2 outer buttons.

Here is the mouse section of my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
EndSection

Has anyone else ever dealt with this and have any insight?

I'm not sure I got you here, so clarify if you could plz.
1. Does your select-and-paste work well on other application? (for example, from one terminal to another?)
2. Type "about:config" in firefox address bar and search for "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" once found, let us know what the current value is (true or false). Try to toggle it from true -> false or false -> true and try the select-and-paste thing again

I didn't see the response here but it worked. Thanks a lot for the tip.