On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:30:01PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> 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 not break these people's machines? > > Ship some .conf files in evdev? > > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "NeedsMiddleButtonEmulation" > MatchIsPointer "yes" > MatchProduct "Crappy HP Laptop|Ancient Mouse" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection > > You could do the same for wheel emulation and make my thinkpad work > usefully out of the box. :)
fwiw, I'm trying to get generic config script support into gnome, so we don't have to ship a million xorg.conf.d snippets for various configurations. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635486 Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
