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

[Joshua Johnson]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:

> 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.


Yeah. I would start there and see if that fixes it.

-Josh


>
>
> 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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