[Mageia-discuss] Third button emulation ? (solved)

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

Found a solution on an Ubuntu list/blog:

Seems the problem comes from a new default onfig of evdev, which no longer 
activates by default the three-button emulation.

There is no GUI way to change this at the moment, it can be changed by adding 
to xorg.conf the following:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "middle button emulation class"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

I read (but did not check, not a Gnome user) that under gnome

$> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse 
middle-button-enabled true

also does trick.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.

Sources:
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696790
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