Emulate3Buttons not honored

[walt]

On 07/26/2011 03:13 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:48:12PM -0400, K Vanw wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Peter Hutterer
>> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:41:34PM -0400, K Vanw wrote:
> [...]
>>>> As you can see, the Middle Button Emulation is not set. but "xinput
>>>> set-prop 10 270 1" will set it correctly. So how do I get this set via
>>>> an xorg.conf.d file?
>>>
>>> try starting a plain X server without a desktop environment. does it work
>>> then?
>>
>> Interesting. I was using the Gnome wm, but switched to good old
>> fluxbox and it worked fine (also works without a wm as Peter
>> suggested). That is, it correctly set Emulate3Buttons from my
>> xorg.conf.d file. So the question is, why/how is gnome turning it off?
>> Not really an X11 question, but maybe someone here knows.
> 
> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse
> middle-button-enabled true

Months later I found the same problem and eventually discovered that the
little-documented dconf-editor gui allows you to set that flag by clicking
a checkbox.  I can only hope the gnome devs are going to migrate that
checkbox to the place it should already be :(