Re: Changing middle-click to right-click?

[Rusi]

On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 5:27:25 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi wrote:
> On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 6:37:09 AM UTC+5:30, HASM wrote:
> > > I'm finding middle-clicking for checking spelling and choosing the
> > > correct spelling, increasingly problematic. How can I change the
> > > 'middle-click' to a 'right-click', system-wide, please?
> > 
> > Linux/X?
> > Something like (for a three button mouse):
> >   echo 'pointer = 1 3 2' |xmodmap - 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> > 
> > -- HASM
> 
> xmodmap is increasingly obsolete and broken
> 
> I think xinput is what you need to use.
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
> Unfortunately those examples seem broken and need small fixes

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In the section
Example: Disabling middle-mouse button paste on a scrollwheel mouse
the xinput call needs an additional <id> parameter before the actual map