New mouse, left-click is now interpreted as a double-click

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 1 18:51:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:27:36PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> Maybe so, but changing drivers corrected the problem, and no software
> was ever changed.  For those interested, here is the config for the
> Marble Mouse, where the middle-click is a left-and-right chord, and the
> left scroll button, held down allows scrolling with the ball.
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver		"mouse"
> 	Option		"CorePointer"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"Auto"
> 	Option    "Buttons" "4"
>   Option    "EmulateWheel" "true"
>   Option    "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
> EndSection

That just changes what X does with those button events.  The driver
doesn't do anything different.

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Len Sorensen
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