cut/paste with mouse buttons
 

One thing I really like about linux is that you can highlight text somewhere on the screen with the left mouse button and then paste it somewhere else into a text field with a middle click of the mouse. Now with Ubuntu 8.04.1 this is no longer the default behavior. Any suggestions how I can get this capability back?

I am running Gnome and this is what is shown in my xorg.conf for the mouse:
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Cutting and pasting works fine from edit menus and appropriate keystrokes but not with the mouse buttons.

Try the "Protocol" from 8.04 = "ImPS/2"
And may be "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(The Identifier should not be changed to the above)

Regards

The following change seemed to make it all work:

Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"

Thanks for the suggestion.