[plug] Disabling middle-mouse-button paste

[Onno Benschop]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>Hi folks
>
>I'm currently in the interesting position of needing to _disable_ middle
>mouse button paste, as I have a user here who cannot seem to scroll
>without clicking and is getting terribly confused.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm having considerable difficulties finding out how to
>do this, if it can even be done at all. I expected it to be possible to
>unmap a mouse button with xmodmap, but I don't see a way to do it that
>way.
>
>Ideally I'd prefer to disable paste but not the middle mouse button.
>What I know about X11 programming suggests that wont' be possible to do
>in any consistent-across-the-system way, though it might be possible at
>the toolkit/desktop level. I need to disable it at least in Evolution
>(so probably across GNOME) and in OO.o . I don't see anything in the Gtk
>or OO.o setup (I've checked out gconf too) for it.
>
>At this point I'm seriously considering just disabling the switch in the
>mouse that detects middle mouse button presses, but I'd prefer to find a
>solution that doesn't involve hardware butchery.
>
>Ideas?
>  
>
Use a binding and map it to something. In sawfish I can grab a global 
middle click and make it do NULL.

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