Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 15 May 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I'll be reading the libinput synaptics and synclient manpages. I've done this exercise and some tests ELAN076D: 00 04F3:3244 Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ELAN076D: 00 04F3:3244 Touchpadid=11 [slave pointer (2)]

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 15 May 2023, Mandar Mitra wrote: You mention your laptop is new, so it is likely that the touchpad supports multitouch and other goodies. yes, brand new. So the OS (Xubuntu 22.04) Synaptics driver and libinput (probably the correct, "modern" option). xinput returns among others (wh

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Sun, 14 May 2023, Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 22:12, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: So the problem is an incompatibility between xterm and fvwm syntethic events (or a syntax problem with PointerKey ?) No. By default generating synthetic events is considered a security risk. which

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:11:41PM +0200): > This has nothing to do with xdotool. If in ANOTHER terminal I do > > sleep 5; xdotool click 2 > > and then qjuickly enough move the mouse to an xterm, the MB1 selection *is* > pasted. But of course this is a bit clumsy. > > So the

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:44:36PM +0200): > I am since ages a keen fvwm user (2.6.8 bundled with ubuntu), mostly on a > desktop PC, with a personal configuration described in > http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html. > > In particular (independently of