Middle mouse button functionality

[Martin Airs]

On Saturday 11 Aug 2012 09:33:49 Emmett Culley wrote:
> I am mostly a programmer, so having the middle button on the mouse paste
> from the clipboard is a pain and sometime disastrous.
> 
> How can I turn that functionality off and make it stay off?
> 
> I can turn it off using xinput to turn off the middle button, but all
> methods I've tired to make it stick, including writing a script to be
> called upon KDE start up, either don't work, or work sporatically and I
> find out when code would compile or run because some (seemingly) random
> string or characters got pasted into the code.
> 
> There is nothing in system-settings - input-devices - mouse.  Yet there MUST
> be a way to define mouse actions so that pressing the middle mouse button
> does not paste in to my workspace.
> 
> Can someone pleas shed some light on how to modify middle mouse button
> functionality?
> 
> Emmett
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if you just right click on your desktop, and go into settings, there's a 
"mouse actions" tab/section, if you turn paste off in there, does that help?

Martin
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