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I have two languages installed on my Windows 8.1 OS: English and Hebrew.

Recently I've started to use mouse middle click to open a link in Chrome in a new tab, and then I noticed that when I do that, it switches the language bar from English to Hebrew and vice versa.

I though that this is some kind of hot key defined to switch between languages, but couldn't see such thing:

Change language bar hot key wizard screenshot

I looked in the mouse and language settings in the Control Panel and couldn't find anything related. Google also didn't give me useful information either.

I don't know if it's related but I use an external mouse connected to my Lenovo ThinkPad T420 laptop.

Any idea?

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  • Do you have any third party software for mouse, keyboard? Does it happen if you disable the hotkey for language switching? – Zina May 11 '16 at 09:42
  • No for the first question. Do you mean disable all the hot keys? (Left Alt + Shift) – user3114639 May 11 '16 at 09:43
  • Yes, I meant to disable the hotkey for language switching from the screenshot you provided. Just to see if it uses that setting when you middle click the mouse. – Zina May 11 '16 at 09:44
  • If I disable it, then it stops switching on mouse wheel clicking. But I do want to switch using Left Alt + Shift. – user3114639 May 11 '16 at 09:47
  • Try to change it to some other key combination to check if the wheel click will change it or not. If not then (somehow) your wheel click simulates a Left Alt + Shift. Strange. Do you have an additional mouse to see if it will behave the same? Do not unplug the first, leave both connected and check. – Zina May 11 '16 at 09:51
  • Looks indeed like my wheel click simulates a Left Alt + Shift. I tried with another mouse- the same behavior. – user3114639 May 11 '16 at 09:54
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/39613/discussion-between-zina-and-user3114639). – Zina May 11 '16 at 10:09

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