Bug#564951: xserver-xorg-input-evdev no longer honors EmulateWheelButton option from hal
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:05:12AM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 13:43:25 -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> > Version: 1:2.3.2-3
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Like everyone else, when xorg switched to evdev I had to scramble with
> > Google to figure out why my mouse no longer worked. I found the
> > information about setting up hal .fdi files, and xorg was happy again.
> > It's been happy for a while.
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> X doesn't use hal anymore for input devices on linux (it relies on udev
> directly). You can use xinput to change the value of the property after
> X startup (something like xinput set-prop <device> "Evdev Wheel
> Emulation Button" 2).
Oy, another scheme! Does a change via xinput persist, or do we
have to run it each time we start X, and thus add it to to some sort of
X startup script? Is there any way to put it in .Xresources or
something? I presume I have to do this for each mouse. If a mouse
disappears and reappears (USB plugging), do I have to re-run xinput? I
should hope not.
Also, can we please get notification out so that people actually
know about this? It's bad enough that there was no visible notice for
the hal change. This time there really should have been something, at
least in changelog.Debian.
Joel
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