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

[Joe]

Thanks. Interesting reading.
We'll see if that's it.
I patched my X11 config to (hopefully) turn off the middle button. Don't
remember how to restart X, so next boot ....

Joe

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
### Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
### Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection


SilverBear wrote:
> 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
>
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>   
>> -----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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