How can I disable the right mousde button?

I've set up an old laptop with Xubuntu for my nephew to use. It works great and he's seems to enjoy Tuxpaint, but is there a way I can turn off the right mouse button? He always seems to click it and ends up opening menus when he just wants to paint.

You can use xmodmap to do this. For example, open a terminal, and enter this code:

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xmodmap -pp

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This will list all the pointer buttons, and their 'designated' number. To disable right click we just need to specify the right click button to a number that doesnt do anything. Entering this should do the job:

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xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 8 9 4 5 6 7 2 3"

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This will map the buttons #2 and #3 (order in the list. button #2 is usually right click) to a designated number of 8 and 9.

Cheers!

Excellent, thank you!