Disable mouse buttons
Chris Tyler
chris at tylers.info
Fri Nov 21 19:09:42 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote:
> Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked.
>
> How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user? I have
> a 4 button mouse plus a scroll wheel (which also acts as another button)
> and for one user want to disable all (including the scroll wheel) but
> the left and right buttons. I am using FC8 with GNOME.
>
> Reason? We are trying to teach our son how to use a computer but a lot
> of the software doesn't distinguish between the left mouse button and
> some of the others and we want to make it so that if he presses one of
> the extra buttons nothing will happen. Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> This change MUST NOT affect the other user accounts and must be
> localized to the one user. Your help is appreciated.
>
> Bradley
Try:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 15 3 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2"
This will map buttons other than 1 and 3 to high button numbers, which
most applications will ignore. (Note that buttons 4 and 5 are typically
the scroll wheel). You can put it in the ~/.bash_profile
-Chris
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