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magyar

Member

Registered: 2014-02-28

Posts: 7

Middle mouse emulation in xfce4

I know there are a bunch of posts about this already, but after several hours of frustration I have come here to post yet another.

Machine: Gateway LT2717 netbook

WM: xfce4

What I've tried (that works flawlessly on my desktop):
Added this to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "emulate middle button"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

I also have a few gnome things installed (gedit), so I executed this in a terminal:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true

Which gave me this:

No such schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse'

Also installed dconf-editor and checked out all the peripheral settings: no option for middle mouse emulation.

And, of course, checked the GUI for mouse/touchpad settings in xfce4: no option for middle mouse emulation.

If I can provide more information, let me know.  Thanks.

OssiL

Member

Registered: 2013-09-20

Posts: 10

Re: Middle mouse emulation in xfce4

Similar stuff happens in Gnome as well:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true
No such key 'middle-button-enabled'

Dig little a bit internet and some others are having the same problem.

If that really is the case, it's sad. But also this should be fixed:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … use_button