How can I disable the mouse in xterm?

Question

I would like to disable the mouse on my Xterm, as it is a common source of accidental commands, etc. How do I do this?

Answer 1

All of the mouse actions in xterm are controlled by the translations resource (which is documented in the manual page). In principle, one could paste that example into a resource file, and use the #override flavor of the translations resource to replace xterm's defaults with your own. Once that is done, then paring down unwanted parts can be done with a text editor. In particular, these actions deal with copy/paste/select

• insert-selection
• start-extend
• select-extend

(For some other subsets, xterm has the omitTranslation resource, but omitting the mouse is seldom a concern).