middle button

Starch · 05-05-2005, 06:08 PM

The middle button is like some sort of copy & paste thing. Can I change it to scroll just like in Windows? If not I want to prevent that copy & paste thing with the middle button.

Thanks in advance!

Komakino · 05-05-2005, 06:33 PM

Do you mean a scroll wheel middle button? Because yes, that can be set up to scroll in the xorg.conf or xf86config file.

Even my mom thinks the copy and paste is a great feature

Tinkster · 05-05-2005, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Starch
The middle button is like some sort of copy & paste thing. Can I change it to scroll just like in Windows? If not I want to prevent that copy & paste thing with the middle button.

What type of mouse is it, do you have a wheel or an actual
third mouse button? And if it's the latter, how do you achieve
scrolling in windows, middle-click (and hold) and then move
the rodent about?

Personally I think that the ability to left-click copy and middle-click
paste is the best thing since sliced bread ;)

Cheers,
Tink

Starch · 05-05-2005, 07:48 PM

Yes its good, but the problem is after I left click to select, I left click to select something else to be replaced, so the middle button is no good.

I have a 3 button mouse, middle button is also a wheel. How may I edit the xorg.conf to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Tinkster · 05-05-2005, 08:05 PM

Well ... what does the mouse section look like now?

Commonly you'll have a
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
in there to allow for scrolling AND middle-clicking.

Cheers,
Tink

Ravo · 06-29-2005, 09:39 PM

Beating the dead horse, how do I disable the middle click! "ZaxisMapping "4 5"" is merely what direction the middle scroller goes.