Xorg/Lenovo/drm revisited

doug at safeport.com doug at safeport.com
Thu Mar 25 19:29:30 UTC 2021



On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
> Doug Denault <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:55:46 -0400 (EDT)
>>> Doug Denault <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> None of these systems recognize double-click as paste in xterm or on
>>>> the xfce desktop. The latter is almost irrelevant as that is supposed
>>>> to list all windows on all desktops (I have 8). Having to drop the
>>>> mouse and do shift-insert is annoying but almost a "who cares".
>>>
>>> 	I've always (some decades now) used middle button for paste in
>>> X11, double click selects a word IME.
>>
>> That acutally might explain #2. The mouse I am using as are all the usb
>> one's I have are at least 10, maybe 15 years old, no three buttons here.
>> For these guys double-click has always meant paste. Not supporting legacy
>> stuff may be the norm these days.
>
> 	By double click do you mean hit both buttons ? That used to be
> controlled by an EmulateThreeButtons setting somewhere in the X config
> (it's been a long time since I needed it).
>
Yes. It worked from fbsd 4.5 until 11.4 and xorg 7.6. I had (until now) no 
need for three button mouse. Adding 3ButtonEmulate was the cause of #1.


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