At 3:28 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: >On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 01:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: >> I've since put everything back and I'm back where I started. > >If you want to retain scrolling, but disable middle-button clicking, you >could just map button 2 (middle) out of the way. > >If you use xmodmap -pp without any re-mappings in place you probably get >something like: > > There are 7 pointer buttons defined. > > Physical Button > Button Code > 1 1 > 2 2 > 3 3 > 4 4 > 5 5 > 6 6 > 7 7 > > >Swapping button 2 with button 7 (which is unused) should disable >middle-click: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 7 3 4 5 6 2" while retaining wheel >functionality. If you're happy with this you can put it into the X init >file of your choice. > >Cheers >Steffen. Aha! Thank you, that seems to do the trick. apropos mouse didn't find xmodmap for me because xmodmap talks about "pointers". Actually, xmodmap says I have only 5 pointer buttons, but I mapped 2 to 7 anyway. :) I chose to put it into /exc/X11/Xmodmap (seems logical) for everyone (well, just me, really). At 3:35 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: >> There are 7 pointer buttons defined. > >Sorry for replying to myself, I forgot to add: in case you only see 5 >buttons here you need to add an extra (unused) button by increasing the >"Buttons" option in the "InputDevice" section in xorg.conf. I don't seem to have to change that. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
