disable middle button paste feature in linux

linuxmandrake · 03-15-2006, 03:54 PM

Most mouses have their scroll bar and middle button combined hence sometimes when I scroll up I accidently paste stuff in. Is it possible to disable this either within the os or netbeans 5.0

jonaskoelker · 03-16-2006, 11:59 AM

I would think so. Edit your X config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) to make your xserver believe you have more mouse buttons than you really have, then use xmodmap to map the middle button to a non-existing one (xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 2" if you say you have nine buttons, similarly for fewer buttons).

hth --Jonas