Emulate3Buttons not honored

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:28:52AM -0400, K Vanw wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Yep. Thanks. BTW, do you know how to set an inertia value for my
> pointer so when I flick the touchpad the pointer will coast ala a
> trackball? I have this on my laptop and find it useful.

Coasting should be enabled by default with synaptics 1.3 and later. Options
CoastingSpeed and CoastingFriction are the triggers, just look up the
synaptics man page, that should explain it. That's just for scrolling
though, we don't have any coasting implementation for the pointer movement.

Cheers,
  Peter