Re: emulating 3 button mouse
On 8/26/19 2:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> cderr wrote:
>> 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
>>>> result
>>>> 0x01, 0x17, 0x11.
>>>> 3.028001] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 00, 2d,
>>>> 85
>>>>
>>>> please let me know if there's other info needed and i'll happily
>>>> provide it
>>>>
>>>
>>> either:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>
>> Where should i insert the InputClass stanza?
>
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is likely. I have a
> 40-libinput.conf there.
>
>
> -dsr-
>
i finally got around to trying this -- added the three lines above to
the end of the InputClass stanza referring to trackpad devices, but
unfortunately no joy yet :-[
thanks much for pointing me to the correct file location in any case,
~c
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