disable scroll mouse

[Skunk Worx]

I really dislike the default behavior of the pointer and scroll mouse on 
Fedora.

For example if I have two applications open, and slide the mouse from 
one to the other, the focus does not follow. I am okay with that, stay 
with me.

However, rotating the scroll mouse over (say) a combo box on the 
unfocused window starts changing the values in that combo box. Open two 
instances of OpenOffice writer and move your scroll pointer over the 
main panes and the combo for the font size to see this. This seems very, 
very wrong.

Now imagine a application with a scrollable pane, sparsely populated 
with combo boxes or whatnot. The pointer goes over the pane, the scroll 
wheel gets bumped or nudged, and the pane scrolls slightly. Ignoring the 
lack of focus issue, fine again.

The problem is, scrolling the pane and having the pointer enter a combo 
box as the pane slides, suddenly the pointer stops there and starts 
altering the contents of the combo...with no left click at any time. 
This just seems very, very wrong.

How can I change this or disable the scroll mouse entirely (other than 
the obvious of changing out the mouse)?

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John