On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 23:17 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. > I suspect it is not 'random'. I expect you are applying enough pressure that you sometimes trip the middle switch when scrolling the wheel. If I were to do that I would learn how much pressure it took and then make sure I did not unintentionally apply that much pressure. In other words, I would learn how to use my mouse the way it is designed to be used. > How can I disable the middle mouse button? Selecting a 2 Button Mouse has > no effect. I don't know that it can be disabled. With the 2 button mouse you can emulate a 3rd button by clicking both buttons at the same time, and a 3 button mouse can be done with clicking just the middle button or by clicking both right and left buttons.
