Emulate3Buttons not honored

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:48:12PM -0400, K Vanw wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:41:34PM -0400, K Vanw wrote:
[...]
> >> As you can see, the Middle Button Emulation is not set. but "xinput
> >> set-prop 10 270 1" will set it correctly. So how do I get this set via
> >> an xorg.conf.d file?
> >
> > try starting a plain X server without a desktop environment. does it work
> > then?
> 
> Interesting. I was using the Gnome wm, but switched to good old
> fluxbox and it worked fine (also works without a wm as Peter
> suggested). That is, it correctly set Emulate3Buttons from my
> xorg.conf.d file. So the question is, why/how is gnome turning it off?
> Not really an X11 question, but maybe someone here knows.

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse
middle-button-enabled true

should get you there, it's probably false now (it is on my machine and I
don't think I ever set this myself)

Cheers,
  Peter