Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:35:00AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard > > and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this > > environment is pretty harsh. > > > > I know it's not optimal to enable this by default,

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-09 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:35:00 +0100 (CET), Mark Kettenis wrote: > I'd consider the loss of out-of-the-box middle-button emulation a > serious regression. I've never noticed the latency it imposes on > single button clicks, so in my opinion Peter made the wrong tradeoff > there. My theory is that

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Keith Packard wrote: > >> looks like the name advertised by the trackstick that sparked this thread is >> "PS/2 Generic Mouse". I'm rather hesitant on shipping any quirks matching on >> this name with the driver, short of one that jumps out of the laptop and >> hit

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
> From: "Keith Packard" > Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:25:19 -0800 > > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard > and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this > environment is pretty harsh. > > I know it's not optimal to enable this by default, but I

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Keith Packard
> looks like the name advertised by the trackstick that sparked this thread is > "PS/2 Generic Mouse". I'm rather hesitant on shipping any quirks matching on > this name with the driver, short of one that jumps out of the laptop and > hits the necessary engineers with a cluebat. Maybe allow match

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:33:25PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Peter Hutterer > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:30:01PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Keith Packard wrote: > >> > > >> > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-st

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:30:01PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Keith Packard wrote: >> > >> > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard >> > and only two buttons. Not having midd

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:30:01PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Keith Packard wrote: > > > > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard > > and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this > > environment is pretty harsh.

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Keith Packard wrote: > > So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard > and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this > environment is pretty harsh. > > I know it's not optimal to enable this by default, but I'm wondering

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: > On 08/12/10 12:25 PM, Keith Packard wrote: > > > >So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard > >and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this > >environment is pretty harsh. > > > >I know i

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread James Cloos
> "PS" == Pat Suwalski writes: PS> From a user's point of view, I'd expect to see this in the GUI PS> with the rest of the mouse properties. "GUI with mouse properties" is not a universal concept. I still use: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "evRelMouse" Option "Emulate3Button

Re: Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 08/12/10 12:25 PM, Keith Packard wrote: So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this environment is pretty harsh. I know it's not optimal to enable this by default, but I'm wondering what can be done to

Lack of middle button emulation makes HP life hard

2010-12-08 Thread Keith Packard
So, HP laptops come with a pointy-stick in the middle of the keyboard and only two buttons. Not having middle-button emulation in this environment is pretty harsh. I know it's not optimal to enable this by default, but I'm wondering what can be done to not break these people's machines? -- keit