On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:04 -0600, Bradley wrote: > Chris Tyler wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote: > > > >> Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked. > >> > >> How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user? I have > >> a 4 button mouse plus a scroll wheel (which also acts as another button) > >> and for one user want to disable all (including the scroll wheel) but > >> the left and right buttons. I am using FC8 with GNOME. > >> > >> Reason? We are trying to teach our son how to use a computer but a lot > >> of the software doesn't distinguish between the left mouse button and > >> some of the others and we want to make it so that if he presses one of > >> the extra buttons nothing will happen. Any ideas or suggestions? > >> > >> This change MUST NOT affect the other user accounts and must be > >> localized to the one user. Your help is appreciated. > >> > >> Bradley > >> > > > > Try: > > xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 15 3 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2" > > > > This will map buttons other than 1 and 3 to high button numbers, which > > most applications will ignore. (Note that buttons 4 and 5 are typically > > the scroll wheel). You can put it in the ~/.bash_profile > > > > -Chris > > > > > > Unfortunately, my Xserver is not run through a BASH shell and so > anything I put in the .bash_profile will be ignored. Thanks anyway. > > Bradley Bradley, That's the command that you need; you can test it by typing it manually into his session. I'm not clear on what you mean when you say the Xserver is not run through a BASH shell; if you mean that you're logging in via GDM or another display manager (which is the normal graphical login mechanism on Fedora), the ~/.bash_profile does get executed as part of session setup, and that command will take effect on the running X server after user login. However, if you've changed your son's account to use another shell (such as tcsh), you can simply place that command in the corresponding startup script. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
