Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:00:48 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Weird mouse behaviour Message-ID: <c6a0ebf6-397d-3e08-3b23-1fff31c48f76@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <20200427112947.1115d323@bsd64.grem.de> References: <76670.1587970466@critter.freebsd.dk> <7549A5DD-3EDC-4EFD-BC0B-4D67232B43BB@grem.de> <51747.1587972365@critter.freebsd.dk> <65670198-e725-5b66-646c-5b147c943cd9@daemonic.se> <52002.1587976130@critter.freebsd.dk> <20200427112947.1115d323@bsd64.grem.de>
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On 2020-04-27 11:29, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:28:50 +0000 > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > >> -------- >> In message <65670198-e725-5b66-646c-5b147c943cd9@daemonic.se>, Niclas >> Zeising writes: >> >>> With my touchpad, ctrl left click and ctrl right click opens two >>> different menus in xterm, main menu and vt font menu, respectively. >> >> ctrl-middle should open "VT Options" >> > > I could reproduce this on my laptop and found the fix. > > The problem is, that the middle mouse button only generates a key > press/key release event pair once its released (can be seen using xev > and `libinput debug-events'). > > This is caused by the trackpoint driver using one-button scrolling by > default (that is, you can hold the middle mouse button and move the > trackpoint - even though this didn't work for me). > > You can disable on-button scrolling using xinput, e.g. > > xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' \ > 'libinput Scroll Method Enabled' 0 0 0 > > After this, Ctrl+middle works as expected in xterm. > > Note: Check `xinput' output to get the correct device name for your > trackpoint (you can also use its numeric identifier, but the name is > supposed to be more stable). Nice catch! I tried looking at xev myself, but apparently, I didn't look closely enough. Now when I know what to look for, I see it clearly. Thanks for your help! Regards -- Niclas
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