Middle button emulation...

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:47:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:04:37 +1000 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 06:48:50PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > At Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:16:32 +0200 "Ralf Mattes" <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  
> > > > Am Samstag, 01. Juli 2017 15:00 CEST, "Ralf Mattes" <rm at mh-freiburg.de>=
> > > >  schrieb: 
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > > [...]> 
> > > > > You could put something loike that (most likely you dont' have a PS/2=
> > > >  mouse :-)
> > > > > into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/my-mouse.conf
> > > > 
> > > > If you don't want to wite a configutation file you can also do this wit=
> > > > h xinput:
> > > > 
> > > >  # Find your pointing device
> > > >  xinput list 
> > > > 
> > > >  # find all configurable options of that device
> > > >  xinput list-props <your-device-id>
> > > > 
> > > >  # switch in middle button emulation
> > > >  xinput set-prop <your-device-id> "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
> > 
> > fwiw, you can use the device name in quotes instead of the device id.
> > 
> > > >  HTH, Ralf Mattes
> > > 
> > > The prop name was different, but this worked.  I could not figure out what to 
> > > say for "Option" in the config file. so I gave up on that.
> > 
> > If you're using the libinput driver, you need to use the libinput-specific
> > property - which is prefixed with 'libinput' instead of 'Evdev'. So I
> > suspect you changed "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled"
> > 
> > > There is some serious lack of documentation here. 
> > 
> > both the property and the option are documented in the driver's man page, 
> > man 4 libinput
> 
> Ah.  But there is not link between man 5 xorg.conf and man 4 libinput...
> 
> So I guess there is a documentation bug of sorts...

indeed, I didn't even realise they were all listed there.
Patch is on the list now, thanks

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/164979/

Cheers,
   Peter
 
> > > Or else there does not seem 
> > > to be any way to specify this in the confguration files.  I wonder if I should 
> > > file a bug report somewhere (is there a bugzilla.xorg.org or something like 
> > > that?).
> > 
> > bugs.freedesktop.org is our bugzilla, for next time.
> >  
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
> >  
> > 
> >   
> 
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