On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Joe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I found the setting for "two fingers" set to the middle button and set<br>
it to left click. I set all the others to left click as well.<br>
<br>
Now it's really weird. At first, it was much worse, now the behavior<br>
"seems" to be gone, but then I went into System<br>
Settings->Touchpad->Tapping and checked that all the options were set to<br>
left click. They are, but when I click Apply, I lose the touchpad<br>
entirely. Logging out and back in restores it, but something is still<br>
very wrong. maybe I have to go back into the X11 config and remove the<br>
changes I made.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah. I would start there and see if that fixes it.<br><br>-Josh<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Any ideas?<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
Joshua Johnson wrote:<br>
> I think that your mouse/touchpad is not emulating 3 buttons. It<br>
> probably has a 3rd button feature build in. You might be able to<br>
> disable it in your mouse config. I'm guessing that is under<br>
> Preferences in Ubuntu but I'm not sure off hand.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Joe <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Nope. That didn't fix it.<br>
> Still poking around for it.<br>
><br>
> Joe<br>
><br>
> Joe wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Thanks. Interesting reading.<br>
> > We'll see if that's it.<br>
> > I patched my X11 config to (hopefully) turn off the middle<br>
> 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<br>
> a middle-mouse button click --or click both right-left buttons at<br>
> the same time if you've not got a middle button. I hate touchpads<br>
> and always connect a mouse to my laptop, so you may need to<br>
> 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<br>
> 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>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >>> -----Original Message-----<br>
</div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> >>> From: <a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>><br>
> >>> Sent: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:08:31 -0500<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> >>> To: <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a>><br>
> >>> Subject: [nflug] Unintended text pasting in Thunderbird - and<br>
> maybe<br>
> >>> elsewhere<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> When I write emails (and maybe in OpenOffice too - I'm not<br>
> sure), I<br>
> >>> click somewhere to move the cursor (since it's on the touchpad<br>
> and I'm<br>
> >>> not looking at it when this happens, I'm not sure if it's a<br>
> left or<br>
> >>> right click).<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Usually, it just works, but sometimes, a bunch of text -<br>
> probably from<br>
> >>> the klipper clipboard gets inserted and completely messes up<br>
> 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<br>
> ended up<br>
> >>> pasting a nine page article into the subject line! It's a<br>
> tribute to<br>
> >>> Linux and Thunderbird that the whole thing didn't crash, but<br>
> 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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