At 10:40 PM -0400 6/6/05, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:01:42PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: >> It's on the mouse wheel, and when I (accidentally) activate it, weird >> cutting and pasting occurs. Googling I see this is normal, but not how to >> configure it. If I had a real middle button I'd probably still want to >> disable what is happening. I expect this is a question about X, but >> pointers would be helpful. > >Once you get used to it, I think this form of copy and paste is much, much >easier than the way some other operating systems do it, because it optimizes >for the common case -- selecting automatically copies, and one click to >paste. Let's imagine that, as on my system, on your system this happened randomly when you rolled the mouse wheel. Would you "get used to it" or would you want it to /stop happening/? In any event, I want it to stop happening. How can I disable the middle mouse button? Selecting a 2 Button Mouse has no effect. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>