Middle mouse button functionality

[Emmett Culley]

On 08/11/2012 09:38 AM, Martin Airs wrote:
> 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

I tried deleting the entry for middle button and changing it to some other action.  No change.  The middle button still pastes to apps.

I might mention that I mostly use Quanta for development, but this happens in Konsole and other purely KDE 4 apps as well.

So far the only way to stop the middle button from pasting into apps is to run xinput set-button-map "Logitech USB Optical Mouse" 1 0 3.  Then if I unplug the mouse that setting get reset.

It is interesting that I also have a Logitech wireless that the middle button doesn't cause the clip board to be pasted into apps.  And button 2 is enabled.

Emmett