Temporarily disable mouse wheel?

[chrismortimore]

Just now, I have a Creative wireless optical mouse, a great little thing with one problem: when left doing nothing it sends (or at least receives) random mouse wheel events. This normally doesn't bother me, but given that my video player of choice is Kaffeine this creates a problem as Kaffeine seeks through the film on mouse wheel events. This means that these random events make the vids jump around every now and then.

I can't see a way in Kaffeine to disable the mouse wheel scrolling, so I was thinking, is there a way to temporarily disable the mouse wheel?
I'm running the xorg that is in the stable branch (its my desktop/server, which I like keeping purely stable), 6.8 I think. I thought there might be a way to do it through xmodmap, but I fiddled a bit and couldn't figure it out.

And before anyone says it, I'm using xine-ui instead of Kaffeine just now, but I like Kaffeine's interface and how it integrates nicely into KDE. And I'm not buying a new mouse.
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[trupoet]

If you dont want to use the mousewheel, you could edit your xorf.conf and remove the line:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

course doing this on the fly would not work since you have to reboot X everytime

[davidgurvich]

You could also change the mouse buttons using xmodmap. Copy the old pointer somewhere, create a new pointer that does not have wheel events.