[nflug] Unintended text pasting in Thunderbird - and maybe elsewhere

[SilverBear]

Joe,
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.

I don't know that you _can_ disable this, but maybe you can set the touchpad click to be less sensitive.  

Of possible help:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

--John




> -----Original Message-----
> From: josephj at main.nc.us
> Sent: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:08:31 -0500
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] Unintended text pasting in Thunderbird - and maybe
> elsewhere
> 
> When I write emails (and maybe in OpenOffice too - I'm not sure), I
> click somewhere to move the cursor (since it's on the touchpad and I'm
> not looking at it when this happens, I'm not sure if it's a left or
> right click).
> 
> Usually, it just works, but sometimes, a bunch of text - probably from
> the klipper clipboard gets inserted and completely messes up what I'm
> doing.  An undo fixes it, but it's highly annoying.
> 
> Any idea what's causing this and how to disable it?
> 
> When I was writing the email before this, it happened and I ended up
> pasting a nine page article into the subject line!  It's a tribute to
> Linux and Thunderbird that the whole thing didn't crash, but you get the
> idea why I don't like this "feature".
> 
> Joe
> 
> kubuntu hardy up to date
> Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (kubuntu version)
> kde 3.5.10
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