Re: Changing middle-click to right-click?

[Sharon Kimble]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>
> [Sorry clicked 'Send' too soon]
> 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

I'm sorry, I missed out one *vital* element of my question, I meant to say
change "button 3" with "button 2" in *emacs* only. This would mean that
I can "right-click" on a misspelled word and it shows me a popup list,
and that is where I'm needing the mouse changes, just in spell-checking.

Sorry
Sharon.
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