On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote: > Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked. > > How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user? I have > a 4 button mouse plus a scroll wheel (which also acts as another button) > and for one user want to disable all (including the scroll wheel) but > the left and right buttons. I am using FC8 with GNOME. > > Reason? We are trying to teach our son how to use a computer but a lot > of the software doesn't distinguish between the left mouse button and > some of the others and we want to make it so that if he presses one of > the extra buttons nothing will happen. Any ideas or suggestions? > > This change MUST NOT affect the other user accounts and must be > localized to the one user. Your help is appreciated. > > Bradley Try: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 15 3 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2" This will map buttons other than 1 and 3 to high button numbers, which most applications will ignore. (Note that buttons 4 and 5 are typically the scroll wheel). You can put it in the ~/.bash_profile -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
