On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad > > of laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks > that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups. I > haven't seen that in practice in quite some time. I think people > mostly stopped implementing it, because two-button mice (without > scroll wheels) fell out of the market. > > > Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? > > I forgot about laptops with touchpads. Unfortunately, this is not > an area that I've had to research, so I don't know what the current X > and Wayland implementations do to emulate three-button mice. Maybe > someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day > documentation about it on the Internet.
Dear Greg, on my TUXEDO Laptop the touchpad is configurable. e.g. middle mouse button == tap with two fingers or like I opted for 'tap harder onto the lower right corner' of the touchpad. just my 2 cents and thanks because I learned a lot from your posts! Kind regards Eike [rest skipped]
