Middle mouse button functionality

[Emmett Culley]

On 08/11/2012 09:33 AM, 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.
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> How can I turn that functionality off and make it stay off?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Can someone pleas shed some light on how to modify middle mouse button functionality?
>
> Emmett

Reported as bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305052

Emmett