Disable middle click application switcher?

I am trying to use a kensington mouse in Maya on a Macbook pro. However, Middle Click launches the application switcher even when in Maya. Does anyone know how to a) fix this or b) disable application switcher?

Install Kensington MouseWorks™ software (version 3.0)
<http://us.kensington.com/html/1385.html#mac30>
It will create a MouseWorks system preference where you can assign Middle-click to the middle button.

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duganmatt,
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Last edited by dodo3773 (2013-05-17 03:35:32)

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morning ...
Yeah I have updated my driver to 16.1.1.0 however the middle button still works as per. Please try reinstalling the drivers and see if it helps.
*Non Lenovo employee*
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Last edited by MoonSwan (2014-11-02 21:51:34)

Hi karol, yes I meant to say a terminal window in X, i.e., xfce4-terminal and roxterm. Pasting text only fails if I have tmuxvsplit its active (currently focused) window either horizontally or vertically. The pasting function fails even if I create a new window and then split that one within the tmux environment too.
My .tmux.conf:
#~/.tmux.conf - tmux terminal multiplexer config
# Based heavily on Thayer Williams' (http://cinderwick.ca)
## Environmental Options
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# set-window-option -g window-status-attr bright
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set -g message-bg default
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# set-window-option -g window-status-current-attr bright
# set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg default
# set-window-option -g window-status-current-attr bright
Edit - typos
Last edited by MoonSwan (2014-11-01 23:06:08)

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Firefox did an automatic update to 6.01, and now my middle mouse button is not working in the browser. It doesn't close tabs, it doesn't open new tabs by middle clicking a link, it doesn't allow me to middle click to scroll the page..

[BUG FIXED, see "EDIT 2" at the end of my post]
I'm on Firefox 3.6.21, and I got this problem today after a Greasemonkey update (To version 0.9.10, apparently).
Disabling Greasemonkey solved the problem, and re-enabling it reproduced the problem (middle-clicking links to open in new tab did not work, merely highlighted the link).
I should also note that while Greasemonkey was enabled and the bug was affecting me, Ctrl+Click to open links in new tabs was also broken.
I hope this helps!
EDIT: It appears this is a known incompatibility/conflict bug between current versions of Greasemonkey and Tab Mix Plus. Read more here:
https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1406
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