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Bug 638215 - No gui to disable 3 button emulation
No gui to disable 3 button emulation
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-28 19:58 UTC by Victor Vargas
Modified: 2011-01-14 14:03 UTC
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Description Victor Vargas 2010-12-28 19:58:45 UTC 
This report was originally filled at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/669150


There is no simple way to disable 3 button mouse emulation (left+right button==middle). Pages which describe how to do that get outdated with every release. (8.XX had manual xorg.conf, 9.XX had hal, 10.04 had udev, 10.10 has xorg.conf fragments)
Turning this off is important to gamers. FPS and other games usability suffers if this is not easy to switch on/off.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-01-14 14:03:54 UTC 
3rd mouse button emulation is switched off by default in recent versions of X.org. See http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html