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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:21:51 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XjBu4pTgJy-7WxzyNoxZR80i+rwHQrkLEc7wPNVzyoCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cffc8040-b5aa-4c96-97b2-ab5729d1e6cf@googlegroups.com>

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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-23  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23  6:06 How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality Davin Pearson
2016-03-23  6:55 ` Dale Snell
2016-03-23  7:21 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2016-03-23 10:58 ` tomas
2016-03-23 18:31   ` Bob Proulx
2016-03-24  9:08 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-28  3:14 ` David Hansen
2016-04-06  2:12 ` Davin Pearson
2016-04-07 22:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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