Alan: I also see this problem on my Toshiba Tecra M10 laptop. Normally I use the mousepad on the laptop and not a separate mouse. I often find it frustrating that my 3ButtonEmulation seems to "go away" after a while.
I do see the message in the Xorg.0.log: (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button However, the laptop mousepad does not have a clear "3rd" mouse button. Perhaps tapping on it in some way makes it generate a 3rd mouse button click, so perhaps I am accidentally activating it with some unintentional gesture? Still, its annoying. I wish I could tell the Xserver that I really want 3rd mouse button emulation even if a 3rd mouse button is detected. Brian > Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK wrote: >> I have a Toshiba Tecra M10, and the mouse pad has two buttons. >> Most of the time, I can highlight some text using the left button (click >> and drag as normal), then I can press both buttons together to paste in >> a target window (i.e. simulating the middle click). >> >> This mostly works (and I usually copy-n-paste this way), but at some >> point during my login session, it stops working, and instead I only ever >> get the right-click context menu. > > The default configuration of Xorg is to recognize left+right as emulating > a third button until/unless a third button is actually clicked, at which > point it assumes you don't need it any more. > > Unfortunately, on builds before about 119, the default on Solaris is to > open /dev/mouse and have the kernel combine all mouse like devices into > a single output stream, so a click on an external mouse will disable it > on all mice. With the switch to hal-based input hotplug in 119 and later, > each mouse is individually opened, so it should track each one seperately. > >> I've not worked out what changes this, and I've not got a clue where to >> start diagnosing this. > > Any messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about disabling 3 button emulation? >
