Stefan Wollny wrote: > Dimitrij Czarkoff posted the relevant section of man mouse(4): Option > "Emulate3Buttons" > Re-reading this several times lead to the solution. The system is a laptop > with two buttons below the touchpad but I have an external mouse attached > with a physical third button - simply pressing this button did the trick. > Sigh... no idea why the emulation of the third button does no longer work. > Will test this with the external mouse detached - but not tonight.
The default setting is stupid. It emulates 3 buttons until you push a third button, then it stops. Then if you switch devices, haha, you're screwed. xinput --set-prop 8 "WS Pointer Middle Button Emulation" 1
