RE: fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Alan Gagne]

> I still haven't managed to get my touchpad workin although my USB mouse is
> working fine.
>
> One thing I don't have with the mouse that I did have with the touchpad was
> pressing both buttons to emulate the middle button and getting a "paste"
> action.
>
> My mouse does actually have a middle button (a pressable scroll wheel) but
> pressing this doesn't give me the effect I want either.
>
> Any suggestions?

Check what you have set currently.

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse 
middle-button-enabled

If this returns false then you can turn this on.

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

Alan

fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 18 June 2013 15:57:23 Alan Gagne wrote:
> > I still haven't managed to get my touchpad workin although my USB mouse
> > is working fine.
> >
> > One thing I don't have with the mouse that I did have with the touchpad
> > was pressing both buttons to emulate the middle button and getting a
> > "paste" action.
> >
> > My mouse does actually have a middle button (a pressable scroll wheel)
> > but pressing this doesn't give me the effect I want either.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Check what you have set currently.
>
> gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse
> middle-button-enabled
>
> If this returns false then you can turn this on.
>
> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse
> middle-button-enabled true
>
> Alan

Thanks for this Alan, do you know what the KDE equiv of this?
Sorry for the dumb question but I've already googled for things like this.

Also, I've run the Scientific Linux Live DVD and my touchpad works fine. It's 
a drastic solution swapping distributions, but so far I haven't found an 
alternative

fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Bob Goodwin]

On 18/06/13 11:09, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > One thing I don't have with the mouse that I did have with the touchpad
> > > was pressing both buttons to emulate the middle button and getting a
> > > "paste" action.

Since F-14 I have had to fix this problem after new installs and 
occasionally after updates by editing 
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf by adding following at the end the:

Section "InputClass"
      Identifier "whatever"
      MatchIsPointer "on"
      Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
      Identifier        "system-setup-keyboard"
      MatchIsKeyboard     "on"
      Option        "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

The second section is to make Control+Alternate+Backspace work again 
which you may not care about. I think this requires a reboot?

Bob

fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 19 June 2013 09:29:15 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 18/06/13 11:09, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > > One thing I don't have with the mouse that I did have with the
> > > > touchpad was pressing both buttons to emulate the middle button and
> > > > getting a "paste" action.
>
> Since F-14 I have had to fix this problem after new installs and
> occasionally after updates by editing
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf by adding following at the end
> the:
>
> Section "InputClass"
>       Identifier "whatever"
>       MatchIsPointer "on"
>       Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputClass"
>       Identifier        "system-setup-keyboard"
>       MatchIsKeyboard     "on"
>       Option        "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection
>
> The second section is to make Control+Alternate+Backspace work again
> which you may not care about. I think this requires a reboot?
>
> Bob
>
> --
>
> http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
>
> box10   Fedora-18 XFCE Linux

Bob,

Thanks for this. However, I didn't have the file you mention. I did have 
00-keybpard.conf which already contianed the CTRL+AL+BS line, but nothing 
about my mouse.