LyX ⇒ Mousewheel / Middle button click, can it be disabled?

[NickThissen]

Hey,

I'm using LyX 1.6.5 on Windows XP, and recently I've noticed that clicking the mouse wheel (or probably the middle mouse button if you have one) will paste the previously selected text into the document where the cursor is at that point.

Can I disable this feature? I cannot find it in the options anywhere... I find it very annoying. When I'm scrolling large distances I might accidentally click the wheel, in which case I would paste possibly huge amounts of text at random positions... Especially when scrolling, something like that can be hard to notice. I just found out my introduction was completely scrambled (it looked like a secret message almost lol) because of this and I basically had to write it again, there was no saving it.

I'm seriously considering switching editors just because of this. I don't want to finish my report and then find out half my text is in the wrong place...

Thanks!

[frabjous]

This might be a feature of your operating system rather than LyX. For example, on most flavors of linux (those using graphical configurations based on xorg), clicking the mouse wheel always pastes.

Here's some instructions from Ubuntu's wiki for turning it off or changing the behavior.

Personally, I like it however.

If you're on another operating system, I've no clue.

[NickThissen]

I've already stated in the very first sentence that I am using Windows XP. Middle-mouse click paste is not default OS behavior, I am sure it is a LyX feature.

[meho_r]

I agree, LyX on Windows is the one who enables this feature, nothing to do with the OS. You may try asking on LyX forum.

[frabjous]

Sorry I guess I read your first post too quickly.

It’s been awhile since I used Windows, but if there’s there no way of preventing it from inside LyX, you could almost certainly intercept middle mouse wheel clicks with AutoHotKey, or even program them to do something else instead. AutoHotKey is probably the thing I miss most about Windows. (OK, the only thing I miss about Windows!)

[meho_r]

@frabjous, you're using Ubuntu, right? Maybe not the same, but this seems like a cool little app.

[frabjous]

Yeah, I do use AutoKey, but it’s nowhere near as nice as AutoHotKey. (Either that, or I just haven't mastered it yet.)

(I recently switched from Ubuntu to ArchLinux, but, yeah, more or less the same stuff is available.)

[amontigit]

I succeded to disable middle button click with autohotkey. It was really annoying on my windows-7. Have it working is a little tricky. You need to create the following script (save to "filename.ahk")

#NoEnv
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
SetTitleMatchMode, 1
#IfWinActive, LyX:
MButton::
MsgBox, Catch qwidget mouse click
return
#IfWinActive ; To turn off context sensitivity

then you compile it (select script and right click with mouse), and run the executable as Administrator. That's all.

If you want you can remove the Msgbox line:

SetTitleMatchMode, 1
#IfWinActive, LyX:
MButton::
return
#IfWinActive ;

[scottkosty]

As of LyX 2.2 there will be a preference to control middle button click behavior. Middle click is disabled by default for Mac and Windows users.

The fix was by Jürgen Spitzmüller and can be seen here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/d48e5330/lyxgit