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porphyry5

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 88

middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

If I use a usb mouse with my acer c720 the X system middle mouse paste function works normally, but with the unit's trackpad there is no response when I do simultaneous left and right click.

However the trackpad does seem to allow its selection to be transferred to the primary, because if I make a selection with the trackpad and then insert the usb mouse, the mouse will paste what the trackpad selected.

Do I need to make some addition to some config file?

Kopkins

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Registered: 2012-07-01

Posts: 189

Re: middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

Try this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "whatever"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

MarcMyWord

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From: United States

Registered: 2015-01-13

Posts: 1

Re: middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

I can think of a couple solutions off the top of my head that may or may not work. These are common solutions to touchpad issues:

1. Install the Synaptics touchpad driver.

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

2. Add "i8042.nomux=1 i8042.reset" to your kernel parameters.

i8042.nomux=1 i8042.reset

porphyry5

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 88

Re: middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

Try this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "whatever"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Thanks for your help, but no luck.  I did notice that not only did this file not exist before, but also there were no files in xorg.conf.d/ at all.  When I installed arch the trackpad had only left click capability, no mouse movement etc.  After I installed xf86-input-synaptics I got movement and left and right clicks.  Does that package have a different config file?  There is no xf86.../ or input-synaptics/ or synaptics/ folder in /etc or in /etc/X11.

\hbar

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 165

Re: middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

The configuration files are in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d .
Have you tried to run 'xinput test id-of-your-trackpad' to see if the middle click is recognized at all?

porphyry5

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 88

Re: middle mouse paste with arch c720 trackpad does not work

The configuration files are in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d .
Have you tried to run 'xinput test id-of-your-trackpad' to see if the middle click is recognized at all?

The only thing 'xinput test' responded to was motion, neither left nor right nor both clicks produced a response, but left and right clicks produce expected responses in apps.

~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Cypress APA Trackpad (cyapa)            	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HD WebCam                               	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]
~ $ xinput test 12
motion a[1]=65 
motion a[1]=63 
motion a[1]=59 
motion a[1]=54 
motion a[1]=50 
motion a[0]=0 a[1]=48