Middle button emulation...
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Jul 3 12:47:13 UTC 2017
At Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:04:37 +1000 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 06:48:50PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:16:32 +0200 "Ralf Mattes" <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Am Samstag, 01. Juli 2017 15:00 CEST, "Ralf Mattes" <rm at mh-freiburg.de>=
> > > schrieb:
> > >
> > >
> > > > [...]>
> > > > You could put something loike that (most likely you dont' have a PS/2=
> > > mouse :-)
> > > > into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/my-mouse.conf
> > >
> > > If you don't want to wite a configutation file you can also do this wit=
> > > h xinput:
> > >
> > > # Find your pointing device
> > > xinput list
> > >
> > > # find all configurable options of that device
> > > xinput list-props <your-device-id>
> > >
> > > # switch in middle button emulation
> > > xinput set-prop <your-device-id> "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
>
> fwiw, you can use the device name in quotes instead of the device id.
>
> > > HTH, Ralf Mattes
> >
> > The prop name was different, but this worked. I could not figure out what to
> > say for "Option" in the config file. so I gave up on that.
>
> If you're using the libinput driver, you need to use the libinput-specific
> property - which is prefixed with 'libinput' instead of 'Evdev'. So I
> suspect you changed "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled"
>
> > There is some serious lack of documentation here.
>
> both the property and the option are documented in the driver's man page,
> man 4 libinput
Ah. But there is not link between man 5 xorg.conf and man 4 libinput...
So I guess there is a documentation bug of sorts...
>
>
> > Or else there does not seem
> > to be any way to specify this in the confguration files. I wonder if I should
> > file a bug report somewhere (is there a bugzilla.xorg.org or something like
> > that?).
>
> bugs.freedesktop.org is our bugzilla, for next time.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>
>
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