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T o n g

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Since: Sep 11, 2009
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:20 pm
Post subject: Touchpad middle-click
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Hi,

On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
click to paste in the x-selections.

I searched like crazy and found a posting which says, "In my debian I
have set Fn+ctrl as middle click and Fn+alt as right click"
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/
comp.os.linux.powerpc/2005-08/0035.html

This is really a neat solution but I can't get it works. Is it a mac
specific tweak? Else, anyone knows how exactly he did it?

Thanks

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jeremy jozwik

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:20 pm
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM, T o n g <mlist4suntong.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
> click to paste in the x-selections.

in my trials and tribulations setting up my tablet pc lenovo i asked
is a button can be used to do different commands based on the current
state of the machine.
the response i received was to use a shell script and map that to the
button press via setkeycodes.

perhaps that is a route you could use to check if both buttons are
pressed then output a different mode?


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ael

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:20 am
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T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
> click to paste in the x-selections.

Perhaps I am missing something here, but surely all you need is
Emulate3buttons in your Xorg.conf?

ael



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Stefan Monnier

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:20 am
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> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
> click to paste in the x-selections.

Assuming your Acer has a touchpad, you should be able to to configure
the `synaptics' X11 driver to accept a "tap in top-right corner" as
a middle click.


Stefan


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John Kapnogiannis

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:20 pm
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
>> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
>> click to paste in the x-selections.
>
> Assuming your Acer has a touchpad, you should be able to to configure
> the `synaptics' X11 driver to accept a "tap in top-right corner" as
> a middle click.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>

Hey I think the driver for the synaptics touchpad was removed from
testing yesterday Surprised. Right now my touchpad doesn't work as it should(No
scrolling and tapping). Maybe removing the driver in testing (cause
there was no version in unstable to migrate) was a mistake??


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Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:20 pm
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tir, 15 09 2009 kl. 02:17 +0300, skrev John Kapnogiannis:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> On my Acer Aspire (AS5536), there is no way to simulate a middle-click by
> >> pressing both the right and left mouse key. But I badly need this middle-
> >> click to paste in the x-selections.
> >
> > Assuming your Acer has a touchpad, you should be able to to configure
> > the `synaptics' X11 driver to accept a "tap in top-right corner" as
> > a middle click.
> >
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
>
> Hey I think the driver for the synaptics touchpad was removed from
> testing yesterday Surprised. Right now my touchpad doesn't work as it should(No
> scrolling and tapping). Maybe removing the driver in testing (cause
> there was no version in unstable to migrate) was a mistake??
I hit the same thing yesterday, i didn't know the synaptics driver was
removed - but that would certainly explain the problem.

I did this to fix it, restart X and hal afterwards:
http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2008/10/11/scrolling-with-the-thinkp...-trackp

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Ole Toft Jensen

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:24 am
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:17:21AM +0300, John Kapnogiannis wrote:
> Hey I think the driver for the synaptics touchpad was removed from
> testing yesterday Surprised. Right now my touchpad doesn't work as it should(No
> scrolling and tapping). Maybe removing the driver in testing (cause
> there was no version in unstable to migrate) was a mistake??
>
>
The synaptics driver was not removed from testing as far as i can see,
what was removed was a transition package probably depending on
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to make the transition from XF86.

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