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

[Joe]

I found the setting for "two fingers" set to the middle button and set
it to left click.   I set all the others to left click as well.

Now it's really weird.  At first, it was much worse, now the behavior
"seems" to be gone, but then I went into System
Settings->Touchpad->Tapping and checked that all the options were set to
left click.  They are, but when I click Apply, I lose the touchpad
entirely.  Logging out and back in restores it, but something is still
very wrong.  maybe I have to go back into the X11 config and remove the
changes I made.

Any ideas?

Joe

Joshua Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us
> <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>> wrote:
>
>     Nope. That didn't fix it.
>     Still poking around for it.
>
>     Joe
>
>     Joe wrote:
>
>     > 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
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>> -----Original Message-----
>     >>> From: josephj at main.nc.us <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>
>     >>> Sent: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:08:31 -0500
>     >>> To: nflug at nflug.org <mailto: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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