Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> wrote:
> My new computer is a laptop and from time to time my fingers brush against 
> the mouse sensor pad, causing the following window to appear:
>
> Change Default Buffer Size
> Change Buffer Font
> Increase Text Size
> Decrease Text Size
> Reset to Default

This menu appears when you shift+click a buffer. If you never use it, unbind it:

(global-set-key [S-down-mouse-1] 'ignore)

> I want to kill such pop up windows as it annoys me when I am trying to use 
> GNU Emacs to do useful work.
>
> Does anyone know how to go about disabling the mouse sensor pad, given that I 
> have purchased an old fashioned mouse for GUI work.

That would depend on your operating system and desktop environment.