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JewFro297

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 6

How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

When I'm playing this one game, sometimes I right click then left click really fast to jump and shoot and it thinks I am pressing the middle button. I have a middle button, so there is no reason to emulate it by pressing the right and left buttons at the same time.

Tux the penguin

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From: Tomorrow

Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 196

Re: How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

What game? Is it only in that game or does it happen other places too?

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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

You might find this blog post interesting:
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-e … ation.html

JewFro297

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 6

Re: How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

The game is sauerbraten, it doesn't matter what game though because I just want to disable middle mouse button emulation altogether. I have a middle mouse button, so I don't need emulation.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

Like the blog post stqn linked to says, middle mouse button emulation is off by default now. I had to explicitly enable it. Check whatever means you have to configure the mouse (xorg.conf, files in xorg.conf.d/, if you use them - gnome control center or other DE control panel) it must be activated somewhere. If it's not, try disabling it explicitly: in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf add this line to the first InputClass section:

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"

JewFro297

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 6

Re: How can I disable the middle mouse emulation

I added that option to both the xorg.conf file and the 10-evdev.conf file and it still is activated. I can't find anywhere where it would be, any other ideas?

Edit: I checked the bottom of the 10-evdev.conf file, and it had a line that turned it back on so its fixed now, thanks.

Edit 2: uhh how do you mark as solved?

Last edited by JewFro297 (2010-11-25 02:27:18)