> > this one appears to be a timing issue. i've a handful of times > > managed to make double-click do middle-button, but it's only > > been a handful of times out of hundreds. > > I tried increasing the "Emulate3Timeout" time to 500 (ms) and it didn't > help at all. With an external USB mouse, pressing left + right worked > fine to emulate the middle button. > > I am starting to suspect that the trackpad simply does not report > multiple button presses. While running xev, I could not even see > anything happening if I pressed a second button while another was > already pressed, no matter if I did anthing slow or fast.
interesting. i definitely had it work a couple times -- eg, paste worked or firefox opened the url but i wasn't able to make it happen again when trying. unfortunately, i don't have any ideas about what this could be. xev apparently does report a second press on linux.. .mrg.
