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Today's Topics:

1. Assistance sought on xorg configuration (john ffitch)
2. Re: Assistance sought on xorg configuration (Alex Butcher)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:26:53 +0000
From: john ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] Assistance sought on xorg configuration
Message-ID: <6011-Tue28Oct2014152653+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk>

I am trying to commission a new laptop, and I have hit a problem that
is outside y knowledge. The machine has two "mouse" buttons and I
need to emulate the middle button, and I do not know where to fix it.
On my older machine it is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev.conf which
refers to an IBM Trackpoint. The new machine has an AccuPoint and a
glide pad (spit). The /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory has a
11-evdev.conf file that looks identical and that does have
Emulate3Buttons set on. The pad seems to be configured from
50-synaptics.conf

What I would really like is to switch the pad off and have emulation
of the middle button -- without it copy-n-paste is hard! Should I
remove the 50-synaptics file, or change the MatchIsTouchpad "on" to
"off", or what?

==John ffitch



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:13:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Assistance sought on xorg configuration
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1410281612060.6957@nffheflf.pb.hx>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, john ffitch wrote:

> I am trying to commission a new laptop, and I have hit a problem that
> is outside y knowledge. The machine has two "mouse" buttons and I
> need to emulate the middle button, and I do not know where to fix it.
> On my older machine it is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev.conf which
> refers to an IBM Trackpoint. The new machine has an AccuPoint and a
> glide pad (spit). The /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory has a
> 11-evdev.conf file that looks identical and that does have
> Emulate3Buttons set on. The pad seems to be configured from
> 50-synaptics.conf
>
> What I would really like is to switch the pad off and have emulation
> of the middle button -- without it copy-n-paste is hard! Should I
> remove the 50-synaptics file, or change the MatchIsTouchpad "on" to
> "off", or what?

Having googled "MatchIsTouchpad", and read
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration>, I'd start with
setting MatchIsTouchpad to On and restarting X. If that doesn't work, I'd
next try removing 50-synaptics.conf

> ==John ffitch

Best Regards,
Alex



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