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How to configure the left mouse click to select only part of directory in terminal?

When I double click /This/is/a/directory it selects the whole string. It should only select the word I click. eg. if I double-click "This" then only "This" is selected. This is how Ubuntu used to ...
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How do I swap mouse buttons to be left handed from the terminal?

I am left handed person. Therefore I want to interchange the typical mouse buttons for right and left clicks. I want to do this via terminal. May someone please suggest the command for it? Is it ...
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Disable trackpad and trackpoint via command line

For my rotation script, I'd like to disable the trackpoint when I have the screen rotated. It is pretty annoying if the screen is folded onto the keyboard and then moves the mouse with the trackpoint. ...
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Bind a mouse button to show the Gnome Shell Activities overview

I'm trying bind a button on my mouse to show the Gnome Shell Activities overview. I'm using xbindkeys to bind actions to my mouse buttons. I tried using the following xte command to show the ...
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paste selected text: switch right and middle click

Is there a way of choosing between right and middle click for pasting? There are ways of for disabling it, I want to change the behaviour How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
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Is there a way to left-click links in gnome-terminal or am I out of luck?

I'm using irssi hosted on a remote computer for IRC, and it'd be super helpful not to have to hold Control or right-click every single link (so I can avoid multiple clicks or multiple hands). At this ...
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Mouse, Mx Revolution Search to Paste Highlighted Text

Looked into a few guides and all of them seem dated. All I really want is to be able to map the 'search button' -> XF86Search to middle mouse click. Or at least replace the 'paste highlighted text' ...
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How to disable right-click menu in terminal?

I'd like to disable right-mouse-click pop-up menu in Ubuntu terminal so that mouse right click to be passed to the application (Midnight Commander, to select files with the right mouse button). How to ...
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Is there a command-line tool which returns the colour of the pixel based on screen co-ordinates?

Is there a command-line tool returns the colour value of a pixel, based solely on its screen co-ordinates. Is there such a tool? (Also: The tool should not require any user action. It is to run in ...