Re-mapping the middlemouse paste functionality

2010-01-29 Thread Adrian Sud
Hi, I am trying to reconfigure the middle mouse button paste buffer command to another one of the 7 available buttons on my mouse, but leave the 2nd mouse button reporting itself as a 2nd mouse button. Any googling and browsing of FAQs finds ways to disable the 2nd mouse button entirely, or map

RE: Re-mapping the middlemouse paste functionality

2010-01-29 Thread Adrian Sud
Hi Ross, xmodmap should let you reassign the button codes (so the middle button is 7 and some side button is 2), but I suspect that this has changed now that XKB is ruling. Worth a go though. Ross Or I could use xinput to remap buttons--the problem is that I actually want the middle mouse

RE: Re-mapping the middlemouse paste functionality

2010-01-29 Thread Adrian Sud
Certainly GTK+ hard-codes button 2 as selection paste, so I expect you'll have trouble. Aha, that's what I needed to know. Makes a lot more sense than X doing it; my thought process was only based on KDE and Gnome both using the same button for it. I'll go look at the GTK then. Thank you