On 2019-08-23 09:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
cderr wrote:my new Dell laptop (running buster) has a trackpad with only 2 buttons(areas really) how do i get it to paste like i want (by clicking on both buttons simultaneously?). i use KDE (and also sometimes a console (with gpm)some dmesg output follows 3.008497] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x4f1001)3.018097] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result0x01, 0x17, 0x11.3.028001] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 00, 2d, 85please let me know if there's other info needed and i'll happily provide iteither: etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... Section "InputClass" ... Option "TapButton2" "2" Option "TapButton3" "3" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "25" The time is in milliseconds; you might want to adjust it. Or you can try synclient, which should take synclient Tapbutton2=2 Tapbutton3=3 -dsr-
Thanks for this. I think it's getting close to the right answer, but on my freshly installed buster, i haven't got the directory structure that you are pointing me towards. Here's what's in /etc/X11:
root@deletion:/etc/X11# ls -la total 104 drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:57 . drwxr-xr-x 153 root root 12288 Aug 23 21:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:48 app-defaults drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:13 cursors -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Aug 23 06:57 default-display-manager drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:11 fonts drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:41 ja_JP.eucJP drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:41 ja_JP.UTF-8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 31 2018 openbox -> ../xdg/openbox -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17394 Nov 23 2016 rgb.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:28 xinit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 2019 xkb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 709 Nov 23 2016 Xreset drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:14 Xreset.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:14 Xresources -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3517 Nov 23 2016 Xsession drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:41 Xsession.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Nov 23 2016 Xsession.options drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:33 xsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Dec 5 2016 XvMCConfig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 Aug 13 07:35 Xwrapper.config root@deletion:/etc/X11# Where should i insert the InputClass stanza? thanks again for the assistance, ~c