Disable Middle mouse button?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jun 7 02:40:45 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:01:42PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> It's on the mouse wheel, and when I (accidentally) activate it, weird
> cutting and pasting occurs.  Googling I see this is normal, but not how to
> configure it.  If I had a real middle button I'd probably still want to
> disable what is happening.  I expect this is a question about X, but
> pointers would be helpful.

Once you get used to it, I think this form of copy and paste is much, much
easier than the way some other operating systems do it, because it optimizes
for the common case -- selecting automatically copies, and one click to
paste.

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