* William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:48:41PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > > severity 352480 wishlist > > thanks > > > > * William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:37:49PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > > Every so often it treats the middle mouse button as a true > > > > middle mouse button and does the unix paste. > > > > > > I see what makes it do it: if I press the scroll mouse button > > > twice quickly it skips the scroll and does the paste. > > > > My suggestion to you is to get a real mouse. I've never seen one like > > the kind you describe and it sounds pretty crappy. > > It does it it with all mice with scrollwheels - Microsoft and Logitech > MX510. I think the problem is I sometimes accidentally double-click the > middle button when I mean to click, hold, scroll.
I've never seen a mouse that has worked like this. By definition a scrollwheel is a wheel, you roll it forward to scroll up and roll it back to scroll down. All the ones I've seen also be pressed down to initiate a 3rd button click. Does your mouse not have these abilities? > If this is because I'm a spas, then so be it. Feature sucks for me. > Me = disable. > > Firefox isn't the root of the problem; I just don't like the X > clipboard. Same thing happens when I highlight some text in an xterm > and then forget and 100 minutes later paste in 19,000 commands in > another via a middle click. > > Firefox is just particularly egregious because it submits EVERYTHING to > the internet. > > Why in the world would Firefox do an "I Feel Lucky" search on an 8,000 > word url? > -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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