Re: emulating 3 button mouse

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

cderr wrote: 
> my new Dell laptop (running buster) has a trackpad with only 2 buttons
> (areas really) how do i get it to paste like i want (by clicking on both
> buttons simultaneously?). i use KDE (and also sometimes a console (with gpm)
> 
> some dmesg output follows
> 
> 3.008497] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with
> firmware version 0x4f1001)
> 3.018097] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result
> 0x01, 0x17, 0x11.
> 3.028001] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 00, 2d, 85
> 
> please let me know if there's other info needed and i'll happily provide it
> 

either:

etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/...


Section "InputClass"
    ...
    Option          "TapButton2"                "2"
    Option          "TapButton3"                "3"
    Option      "EmulateMidButtonTime"          "25"


The time is in milliseconds; you might want to adjust it.

Or you can try synclient, which should take
synclient Tapbutton2=2 Tapbutton3=3

-dsr-