[SOLVED] laptop middle mouse paste emulation with touchpad

porphyry5 · 04-08-2012, 10:46 AM

Slackware64 13.37
Supposedly middlemouse-click paste functionality can be emulated on a touchpad by clicking left and right buttons simultaneously.
http://www.slackware.com/config/x.php states in part

Quote:

Next xorgconfig will ask you about using ChordMiddle and Emulate3Buttons. You'll see these options described in detail on the screen. Use them if the middle button on your mouse doesn't work under X, or if your mouse only has two buttons (Emulate3Buttons lets you simulate the middle button by pressing both buttons simultaneously).

But apparently xorgconfig is history

Code:

~ $ xorgconfig
bash: xorgconfig: command not found
root@a:~#  xorgconfig
-su: xorgconfig: command not found

Could someone kindly advise me how I might edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to achieve that result? man xorg.conf denies all knowledge of ChordMiddle, Emulate3Buttons, Protocol and ZAxisMapping. Currently my xorg.conf contains

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
.
.
.
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

mattca · 04-08-2012, 11:37 AM

Try adding this to your xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "middle button emulation class"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

TobiSGD · 04-08-2012, 11:48 AM

On my Slackware machines with touchpad the emulation of the third mouse button works out of the box, all i have is a small section regarding the touchpad that has options for speed of mouse-pointer, etc ..., in an extra file in /etc/xorg.conf.d/. If you use the proprietary AMD driver just launch

Code:

aticonfig --inital

and try if it works. If not you should try mattca's options.

porphyry5 · 04-08-2012, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattca

Try adding this to your xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "middle button emulation class"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Thank you very much, this did the trick.

My thanks also to TobiSGD.