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

[Alan Gagne]

> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 16:18:14 Alan Gagne wrote:
> > /  Try to use xinput for both mouse and touchpad.
>
> />/
> />/    xinput list
> />/  # xinput list_props "$device_name_or_number"
> />/  xinput list-props 10
> />/  Turn on three button emulation.
> />/  xinput set-prop 10 "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
> />/
> />/
> />/  Alan
> /
> The problem with the touchpad is that it's seen as a PS/2 device which from
> Google is an old problem that seems to have re-appeared.
>
> I've run
>
> "xinput set-prop 14 "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1
>
> and it's got the Left+Right mouse button click to work on my USB mouse.
>
> How do I go about making this permenant?

I haven't used KDE for quite a long time so YMMV.

Create a script with the xinput set command and make it executable.
Test to make sure it works.
Then Goto System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart, then click 
Add Program, enter:
your script.

Alan

fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 18 June 2013 18:25:12 Alan Gagne wrote:
> Create a script with the xinput set command and make it executable.
> Test to make sure it works.
> Then Goto System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart, then click
> Add Program, enter:
> your script.
>
> Alan

Alan,

I did as you suggested but unfortunately it didn't help. I then found that 
doing it manually also stopped working. The problem turned out to be that 
every time I boot up the ID changed.

I changed my script to the following and it works every time now. Thanks for 
your help.

Gary

[gary@gary ~]$ more /etc/X11/3button 
#!/bin/bash

X='/usr/bin/xinput'

for F in `$X list|grep Logitech|cut -d = -f 2|cut -c1-3` ; do                                                                                      
  $X set-prop $F "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 1                                                                                                                
done

[gary@gary ~]$