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When I middle-click a tab in Chrome it closes it, which is handy. However, if I try to middle-click a tab in Chrome and miss by 1 pixel, I wind up middle-clicking on the title bar, which for some reason causes MATE to act almost as if I'd done ALT + TAB (ie. it switches to the window behind it).

How can I disable this?

machineghost
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As I was writing this question I found an answer. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a way to solve this problem in the GUI, but at the command line I was able to run:

gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general action-middle-click-titlebar none

to fix the problem.

It works as follow:

gsettings set = command to change a "g" ie. GNOME (ie. MATE) setting

org.mate.Marco.general = "schema" (ie. settings category) for general MATE UI settings

action-middle-click-titlebar = setting that controls what happens when a window's title bar gets middle-clicked

You then have have several options you can set it to:

  • toggle_shade

  • toggle_maximize

  • toggle_maximize_horizontally

  • toggle_maximize_vertically

  • minimize

  • none = what I set it to to fix things (by making middle clicks do nothing)

  • lower = what I had it set to: makes the window "lower" itself behind the window behind it (similar to ALT + TAB)

  • menu

  • last

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