On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:22, Russell Davis wrote: > Is there a way to disable the default behavior of the middle mouse button, > which pastes the contents of the clipboard? Preferrably a solution that > doesn't require any special priveleges, as I'd like to do this on my byu cs > accounts. >
Unfortunately I think it's a function of the X server. X has 2 clipboards (well actually X has many clipboards) as you know. They are generally controlled at the application layer, so you might be able to patch the toolkit (like gtk or qt) to not paste. While I'm at it, sometimes I find that text can be in the 2nd (main) clipboard, ready to be ctrl-v'd, but the first clipboard is empty and middle-click doesn't work at all. I remember in the olden days that ctrl-c would copy text into both clipboards so I could middle-click. Anyway that's probably one of those desktop usability issues. Personally I hardly use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V anymore. I use select and middle-click almost exclusively. It's my biggest handicap when I'm forced to use windows. I do understand why you'd want to disable that, though. Sometimes when scrolling through a window you accidentally paste. Anyway, can't really help more than this. Be sure to google and see what comes up. Michael > Thanks, > Russell Davis > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
