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
>
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> 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.



-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk