Disabling the PASTE function of mouse wheel click

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lightman47
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Disabling the PASTE function of mouse wheel click

Post by lightman47 » 2017/08/18 14:12:47

I have a heavy mouse-rolling finger. As I scroll through lists and web pages I often accidentally click the wheel - it's driving me nuts. I've looked through gconf-editor and am now in dconf-editor and the closest I can find is org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.mouse-back-button ... which is currently 8.

Am I on the right track? How do I disable the mouse-wheel click function? [CentOS7 default Gnome install - up to date]

Thank you.

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Re: Disabling the PASTE function of mouse wheel click

Post by TrevorH » 2017/08/18 16:24:29

Pretty sure I saw this option in gnome-tweak-tool yesterday when I was looking for something else. Yep, in Keyboard and Mouse, there's a "Middle-click Paste" option.
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Re: Disabling the PASTE function of mouse wheel click

Post by lightman47 » 2017/08/18 16:27:43

Awesome, thank you! Figures -- the one place I said "I know it won't be in there".

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