I think that your mouse/touchpad is not emulating 3 buttons. It probably has a 3rd button feature build in. You might be able to disable it in your mouse config. I'm guessing that is under Preferences in Ubuntu but I'm not sure off hand.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Joe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nope. That didn't fix it.<br>
Still poking around for it.<br>
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Joe<br>
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Joe wrote:<br>
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> Thanks. Interesting reading.<br>
> We'll see if that's it.<br>
> I patched my X11 config to (hopefully) turn off the middle button. Don't<br>
> remember how to restart X, so next boot ....<br>
><br>
> Joe<br>
><br>
> Section "InputDevice"<br>
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"<br>
> Driver "mouse"<br>
> Option "CorePointer"<br>
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"<br>
> ### Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>
> ### Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"<br>
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"<br>
> EndSection<br>
><br>
><br>
> SilverBear wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Joe,<br>
>> I think you're activating the X-Window paste function, which is a middle-mouse button click --or click both right-left buttons at the same time if you've not got a middle button. I hate touchpads and always connect a mouse to my laptop, so you may need to experiment to see if it works the same on a touchpad.<br>
>><br>
>> I don't know that you _can_ disable this, but maybe you can set the touchpad click to be less sensitive.<br>
>><br>
>> Of possible help:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html" target="_blank">http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> --John<br>
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>>> -----Original Message-----<br>
>>> From: <a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a><br>
>>> Sent: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:08:31 -0500<br>
>>> To: <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>
>>> Subject: [nflug] Unintended text pasting in Thunderbird - and maybe<br>
>>> elsewhere<br>
>>><br>
>>> When I write emails (and maybe in OpenOffice too - I'm not sure), I<br>
>>> click somewhere to move the cursor (since it's on the touchpad and I'm<br>
>>> not looking at it when this happens, I'm not sure if it's a left or<br>
>>> right click).<br>
>>><br>
>>> Usually, it just works, but sometimes, a bunch of text - probably from<br>
>>> the klipper clipboard gets inserted and completely messes up what I'm<br>
>>> doing. An undo fixes it, but it's highly annoying.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Any idea what's causing this and how to disable it?<br>
>>><br>
>>> When I was writing the email before this, it happened and I ended up<br>
>>> pasting a nine page article into the subject line! It's a tribute to<br>
>>> Linux and Thunderbird that the whole thing didn't crash, but you get the<br>
>>> idea why I don't like this "feature".<br>
>>><br>
>>> Joe<br>
>>><br>
>>> kubuntu hardy up to date<br>
>>> Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (kubuntu version)<br>
>>> kde 3.5.10<br>
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