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[Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jonathan.

I guess after 20 years of computers I've never used the middle button for
anything... Regardless, the touchpad did not show this behaviour before I
installed evdaemon, so it was most definitely introduced by it.

cheers

2010/4/3 Jonathan Wagner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Middle click on a normal device pastes any highlighted or copied text, so I
> think this is normal behavior.  If you're looking for scrolling then swipe
> with two fingers.
>
> I'm not Tuomas, but I don't think his software has this control (except
> maybe being able to disable middle click?).
>
> Jonathan Wagner
>
>
> 2010/4/3 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Tuomas,
>>
>> I'm a ul30vt user. I found your evdaemon amazingly helpful.
>>
>> Unfortunately, installing it cause a strange behaviour: when I double
>> click with two fingers - something that supposedly mimics the behaviour of
>> the mouse's middle button - it pastes any text I have copied.
>>
>> This is unfortunately an even more annoying problem than the accidental
>> touches while typing, so I had to uninstall evdaemon.
>>
>> Can you fix it? Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dinis
>>
>> 2010/3/27 Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>>  On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:35 -0400, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
>>> > While I believe this is a very useful resource, it has many bugs and
>>> omissions. Can we
>>> > convert it to a wiki format, either here or elsewhere?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Actually, there is already a wiki page dedicated to UL30A:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusUL30A
>>>
>>>
>>> > - the touchpad issue is a real nasty one. I've found and modified a
>>> tool to turn it off,
>>> > and could simplify the setup for other users.
>>> >
>>>
>>> If you are interested, I wrote evdaemon
>>> ( http://codegrove.org/evdaemon/ ) to kill the pain with the touchpad
>>> ( it can also act as syndaemon for event devices in general). Because
>>> manually switching on/off the touchpad was not an option for me, I wrote
>>> evdaemon to switch on/off event devices during keyboard activity. It's
>>> Ubuntu-packaged in my PPA:
>>> https://launchpad.net/~tuos/+archive/codegrove<https://launchpad.net/%7Etuos/+archive/codegrove>
>>>
>>> There is also a gui-tool for configuring the daemon:
>>> http://codegrove.org/evdaemon-admin/
>>>
>>>
>>> It has helped at least me and couple of my friends in this pain.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tuomas
>>>
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