I was browsing the Internets trying to figure out how to completely disable the right-click button on my mouse. I am running openSUSE 11.3 with just Gnome and using a basic USB Dell model mouse with a scroll wheel. I am creating a Kiosk image and I have everything locked down except when a user is in Firefox they can still use the right-click button to bring up the menu to Bookmark this page and Save Page As, etc (If you right-click a webpage in Firefox you’ll see what I’m talking about). I thought I could find an add-on for Firefox to disable this behavior but no such luck. I did find some references for Debian and Fedora, other distros besides openSUSE where you can modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to disable the right mouse button. When I look in that directory on my openSUSE 11.3 system I just see /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install.
My question is how can I disable the right-click ability on my mouse? This is the last step and I’ll have a nice locked down Kiosk image ready to go running openSUSE 11.3.
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> I was browsing the Internets trying to figure out how to completely
> disable the right-click button on my mouse. I am running openSUSE 11.3
> with just Gnome and using a basic USB Dell model mouse with a scroll
> wheel. I am creating a Kiosk image and I have everything locked down
> except when a user is in Firefox they can still use the right-click
> button to bring up the menu to Bookmark this page and Save Page As, etc
> (If you right-click a webpage in Firefox you’ll see what I’m talking
> about). I thought I could find an add-on for Firefox to disable this
> behavior but no such luck. I did find some references for Debian and
> Fedora, other distros besides openSUSE where you can modify the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to disable the right mouse button. When I look
> in that directory on my openSUSE 11.3 system I just see
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install.
>
> My question is how can I disable the right-click ability on my mouse?
> This is the last step and I’ll have a nice locked down Kiosk image ready
> to go running openSUSE 11.3.
>
This is just a SWAG, but if you have some info on modifying xorg.conf…
Go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and apply those same changes to the appropriate
stanza of the file 11-mouse.conf. This is supposed to be the way of the
future for tweaking the X configuration.
