Disable mouse buttons

[Bradley]

Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:32 -0600, Bradley wrote:
>   
>> Hello, here is a question I'm sure rarely, if ever gets, asked.
>>
>> How do I disable some of my mouse's buttons for a specific user?  I have 
>> a 4 button mouse plus a scroll wheel (which also acts as another button) 
>> and for one user want to disable all (including the scroll wheel) but 
>> the left and right buttons.  I am using FC8 with GNOME.
>>
>> Reason?  We are trying to teach our son how to use a computer but a lot 
>> of the software doesn't distinguish between the left mouse button and 
>> some of the others and we want to make it so that if he presses one of 
>> the extra buttons nothing will happen.  Any ideas or suggestions?
>>
>> This change MUST NOT affect the other user accounts and must be 
>> localized to the one user.  Your help is appreciated.
>>
>> Bradley
>>     
>
> Try:
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 15 3 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2"
>
> This will map buttons other than 1 and 3 to high button numbers, which
> most applications will ignore. (Note that buttons 4 and 5 are typically
> the scroll wheel). You can put it in the ~/.bash_profile
>
> -Chris
>
>   

Unfortunately, my Xserver is not run through a BASH shell and so 
anything I put in the .bash_profile will be ignored.  Thanks anyway.

Bradley