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Re: X: standard method for "switching off" left mouse button?
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Florian von Savigny |
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Re: X: standard method for "switching off" left mouse button? |
Date: |
31 Mar 2003 01:51:28 +0200 |
gebser@ameritech.net writes:
> Ca va. I experienced exactly the same very annoying problem. The
> best/quickest solution I found was to plug a regular mouse into the
> laptop.
> Another note: any emacs solution you implement should work only when the
> focus is on emacs, meaning that if the mouse pointer is on, say, a
> terminal window, when you accidently touch the mousepad, it'll bring up
> that terminal window.
I think that would have been practical, since the problem only becomes
apparent to me when entering text in Emacs. Under X in general, the
feature was quite charming (I have now disabled it with the help of
tpconfig, see Alan's posting).
> So the disabling of the mouse should be done in
> X; look in /etc/X11/XF86Config* for the mouse section. The problem with
> this "solution", however, is that you'd have to restart X every time you
> wanted to disable or enable the mouse... probably as much a hassle as
> dealing with touchpad accidents.
Hmm, I think that this is feasible if you can do without the mouse
altogether under X (not a bad idea on a laptop, I'd say).
> Now for a completely crazy idea: /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux.
> It could possibly, conceivably, theoretically be possibly theoretically
> conceivable to disable the mouse by removing /dev/mouse and then enable
> it again with "ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse". You might try that (on
> your boss's computer when he's not around). I'd be curious to know if
> that works, but not curious enough to try it on my own box. B^+
What's the rationale behind that? (I didn't try it - when your
proposal appeared, I had just installed tpconfig, which seems perfect).
Thanks a lot for your proposals anyway!
Florian