[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#754928: xfsettings doesn't actually talk to xinput as documented
Package: xfce4-settings
Version: 4.10.1-2
Severity: normal
In this documentation:
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/mouse
it is said that "Xfsettingsd is capable of setting all sorts of device
properties", and goes about showing an example on how to set arbitrary
xinput settings with xfconf.
I happen to want to set the "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" setting,
having only a crippled, two button mouse.
The following works:
xinput --set-prop 9 'Evdev Middle Button Emulation' 1
Note that I have the following input device defined:
anarcat at marcos:~$ xinput --list
? Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
? ? Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
? ? Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
? ? Primax Kensington Eagle Trackball id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
? Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
? Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
? Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
? Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
? LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
? LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
? AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
According to the above documentation, I would have expected the
following to work as well:
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true
This does set the parameter in the xfconf registry, but doesn't
propagate it to the xinput listing:
anarcat at marcos:~$ xinput list-props 9 | grep 262
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (262): 0
I have also tried the following settings:
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s 1
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t int -s 1
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true
xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t int -s 1
none would actually affect xinput.
In fact, I have also tried the seemingly magic:
xinput --watch-props 9
for changes, but even when i would change working settings in the
mouse settings dialog (like acceleration or right/lefthandedness), no
change would occur there.
Therefore, there must be a problem with the documentation, or between
this keyboard and chair.
Please enlighten.
Cheers,
A.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xfce4-settings depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-5
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.6-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libexo-1-0 0.10.2-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-5
ii libgarcon-1-0 0.2.1-1
ii libgarcon-common 0.2.1-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.24-1
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1
ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.10.0-5
ii libxfce4util6 4.10.1-1
ii libxfconf-0-2 4.10.0-2
ii libxi6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1
ii xfconf 4.10.0-2
Versions of packages xfce4-settings recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+1
ii xfce4-volumed 0.1.13-5
xfce4-settings suggests no packages.
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