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Hello,
is there a way to disable middle click pasting in X?
(I know lots of people love this feature. So did I until I switched to a laptop and found a way to enable two finger scrolling. Now I end up pasting things in the middle of a text, often without even noticing it, and it's less than very cool.)
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by caminoix (2010-05-22 12:29:33)
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What DE/WM are you using?
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I use xmonad.
But if it's possible, I'd be most grateful for a solution which turns it out in X (it's an xclipboard feature, isn't it?) rather than changes it to something else in xmonad. But I'll be grateful for any solution in fact
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I was hoping you were going to say KDE because that's the only thing I'm familiar with. You can set all the mouse actions through the system settings there. Unfortunately I know nothing outside of that.
Although in an attempt to offer at least something I did find this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmo … ing_xmonad Scroll down a little bit and it looks like you can change the mouse key bindings there in that config file.
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I know you can do this, you check your mouse keymap by
$ xmodmap -pp
There are 20 pointer buttons defined.
Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
And use `xev` to know which button/wheel are mapped to/used. In my case, 1 2 3 (three buttons), 4 5 (wheel), 7 8 (go back/forward).
So I do:
$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 4 5 2"
Warning: Only changing the first 6 of 20 buttons.
I don't know if there is a way to disable, but remap seems to work. (But I don't do/disable it.)
PS. I use Fluxbox, and this should do in X level.
Last edited by livibetter (2010-05-22 12:16:08)
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herrvideman
Thanks for your help! I was just trying to figure out how to use it when livibetter gave me a ready solution.
livibetter
Thanks a lot! It works for me I'll need to read the doc to understand it but I can already see it does just the thing I wanted. Thank you!
PS. Once again I'm impressed by how quick and useful answers I get in this forum. You guys ROCK!
Last edited by caminoix (2010-05-22 12:30:27)
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