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

thanks ever so very much in advance,
~c

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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-

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On 2019-08-23 09:51, Dan Ritter wrote:

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-

Thanks for this. I think it's getting close to the right answer, but on
my freshly installed buster, i haven't got the directory structure that
you are pointing me towards. Here's what's in /etc/X11:

root@deletion:/etc/X11# ls -la
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 153 root root 12288 Aug 23 21:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:48 app-defaults
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:13 cursors
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Aug 23 06:57 default-display-manager
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:11 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:41 ja_JP.eucJP
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 23 06:41 ja_JP.UTF-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 31 2018 openbox -> ../xdg/openbox -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17394 Nov 23 2016 rgb.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:28 xinit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 2019 xkb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 709 Nov 23 2016 Xreset
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:14 Xreset.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:14 Xresources
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3517 Nov 23 2016 Xsession
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:41 Xsession.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Nov 23 2016 Xsession.options
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 07:33 xsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Dec 5 2016 XvMCConfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 Aug 13 07:35 Xwrapper.config root@deletion:/etc/X11#


Where should i insert the InputClass stanza?

thanks again for the assistance,
~c

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cderr wrote:

On 2019-08-23 09:51, Dan Ritter wrote:

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-

Thanks for this. I think it's getting close to the right answer, but on my freshly installed buster, i haven't got the directory structure that you are pointing me towards. Here's what's in /etc/X11:

Where should i insert the InputClass stanza?

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is likely. I have a
40-libinput.conf there.


-dsr-

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On 8/26/19 2:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:

cderr wrote:

On 2019-08-23 09:51, Dan Ritter wrote:

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-

Thanks for this. I think it's getting close to the right answer, but on my >> freshly installed buster, i haven't got the directory structure that you are >> pointing me towards. Here's what's in /etc/X11:

Where should i insert the InputClass stanza?

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is likely. I have a
40-libinput.conf there.

-dsr-

i finally got around to trying this -- added the three lines above to
the end of the InputClass stanza referring to trackpad devices, but unfortunately no joy yet :-[

thanks much for pointing me to the correct file location in any case,
~c



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