Bug 284189 – Middle mouse button doesn not paste in Java apps

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Tim Ryan 2009-09-08 15:56:13 UTC]

The middle mouse button does not paste in any java app, it acts like the right mouse button. The mouse works correctly on any non-java app. I currently have dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.16 installed, but I have tried it with 1.6.0.15 with the same results. This same jdk works correctly on my Ubuntu box at work. This is the same on two amd64 systems, my old one, and a new box just installed. 

tryan@recluce ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc40 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:20 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1, 3.1.1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --keep-going"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dns dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk h323 hal iconv isdnlog javascript jpeg kde kerberos ldap libnotify libwww mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ofx ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pipechan png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl server session sip spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vdpau videos vorbis wav webkit x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to paste anything into a java app, such as sqldeveloper, or frostwire.
2. Right menu pops up instead.
3. repeat

Actual Results:  
pops up right button menu.

Expected Results:  
paste test into app.

[Comment 1 Patrice Clement (RETIRED) 2015-05-18 14:06:39 UTC]

Ahem. We have no way of reproducing the problem (1.6 has been removed from the tree a while ago). Consider using newer versions (1.7 and/or 1.8) of Oracle JDK. 

By the way, that kind of problem usually comes from X (wrong configuration) and isn't strictly related to the JVM. Closing this bug.