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newarchuser11

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Registered: 2022-07-09

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[Solved]Middle mouse button doesn't work (on keyboard)

I've installed arch on thinkpad t420 and middle mouse button doesn't work (the one on the keyboard). Like when I use firefox I scroll down/up holding middle mouse button and trackpoint. It worked "out of the box" on x220 but on this machine it works only sometimes. Most of the time it doesn't, and all other buttons work perfectly fine. Also by default when you press middle mouse on some link in firefox it opens it in new tab, and it doesn't work either here.

Update after a little research.
I'm using xf86-input-libinput and this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackP … ton_scroll Middle button wiki states that "middle-button scrolling is enabled by default" which is not the case for me.

 xinput list-props "12"
Device 'ThinkPad Extra Buttons':
        Device Enabled (174):   1
        Coordinate Transformation Matrix (176): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
        libinput Send Events Modes Available (289):     1, 0
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (290):        0, 0
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (291):        0, 0
        Device Node (292):      "/dev/input/event4"
        Device Product ID (293):        6058, 20564

Also "Fn+home/end" increases/decreases brightness as it should but, "Fn+PgUp" doesn't turn the led near the cam. All these worked without any configurations on x220.

xev -event button | grep button

gives

    state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
    state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES
    state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
    state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES

no reaction from this when I press middle mouse. Does that mean it's broken or it's just that x doesn't see it?

Got another keyboard. It works not.

Last edited by newarchuser11 (2022-07-22 16:44:32)