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Hello,
After a system upgrade which updated, among other things, xorg-xinput to 1.5.2-1, my middle mouse button, as well as the middle mouse button emulation with left mouse button + right mouse button, stopped working.
The middle mouse button is a scroll wheel. Scrolling up and down still works, just not pressing it. It actually can be pressed either left or right; only the left previously registered as a middle mouse click.
xev reports the left shift of the mouse wheel as button 6 and the right shift of the mouse wheel as button 7.
It doesn't seem to work in any app; I can't use it to paste, nor to enter autoscroll mode in Firefox.
From xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "6"
EndSection
I've tried a number of things -- removing the EmulateWheelButton line, changing ZAxisMapping to just "4 5". None had any effect.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. I'm completely lost without the ability to paste.
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Add this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "whatever"
MatchIsPointer "on"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection
to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (or any Xorg conf you want) and you will again have middle click emulation. I don't know if this will solve your problem regarding your actual middle button.
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That didn't affect the actual middle button behavior but the middle click emulation does work again as you said, which is all I really need. Thank you!
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Thank you very much augegr!
I find that clicking the left and the right button at the same time to emulate the wheel click is much more comfortable. Since the input configuration changed from Hal, I couldn't find a solution to this problem.
Now the changes will require the xserver to be restarted, or is it possible to restart another program?
What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand. –Tao Te Ching/Laozi
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