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[Jonathan Wagner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then perhaps Tuomas will chime in on disabling it. In fact, I was really
dissapointed when I realized that you couldn't click both the right and left
buttons, a common middle-click emulation) on the touchpad due to the rocker
design.  I installed evdaemon very shortly after receiving the laptop, so I
guess I didn't notice the added middle-click functionality or lack there of
by default.  If it is evdaemon adding this, then three cheers to evdaemon.
 Once you get used to it, you just can't give it up.  I use Windows in
VirtualBox for some work applications and it pains me to no end when I
highlight text and middle-click to paste and nothing happens.  Even worse is
Xilinx's ISE software and it's lack of middle-click paste even though it's
running natively in Linux.

Anyway, hope you get things worked out.  Any out of the norm behavior from
our input devices can be a real pain.

Jonathan Wagner


2010/4/3 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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