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[Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll continue this top-posting thread by top-posting, even though it
gives me nasty shivers ;-). However, breaking the tradition now would
probably result in a quite messy post..

I think that the middle-button-paste is handled by Xorg and is it's
default behavior. It has nothing to do with evdaemon. Evdaemon just
clones a device and repeats it's events when the filtering is disabled
and suppresses events when filtering is enabled. It does not alter
device's behavior. So middle-button-paste works whether the evdaemon is
running/installed or not. Just like selecting text copies it to X's
clipboard.

The middle-button-paste is quite handy, but can be easily disabled with
xinput:

Disable middle-button completely:
  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 0

Map middle-button to left-button:
  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 1

Map middle-button back to middle-button:
  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 2

and so on. See xinput's manpage.

In the example above, I assumed that evdaemon's device name was the
default "evdaemon". This is however configurable via evdaemon-admin or
config-files. See the correct device name or id if evdaemon's name has
been changed: xinput list | grep id.

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 14:43 +0100, Jonathan Wagner wrote:
> 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
>                                 
>                                 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


-- 
Tuomas

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