How to change the window manager's mouse click actions?

Question

When I click with the middle button of the mouse on a window, it goes to the bottom of the stack, and two clicks on the window bar maximize it. Can we change that? or even disable?

some background:

I use the middle click to paste content on a new tab on chrome, middle clicking the new tab button, but it's easy to miss it and put your browser on the bottom of the stack, it is annoying

Answer 1

You can use gsettings:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences action-middle-click-titlebar 'none'

Will disable the feature. To re-enable, use this:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences action-middle-click-titlebar 'lower'

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These are the options you can set it to:

• toggle-shade, which will shade/unshade the window (roll up / down)
• toggle-maximize which will maximise/unmaximise the window
• toggle-maximize-horizontally and toggle-maximize-vertically which will maximise/unmaximise the window in that direction only
• minimize which will minimise the window
• shade which will roll the window up
• menu which will display the window menu (default for right click)
• lower which will put the window behind all the others
• none which will not do anything, and effectively disables this action.