Package: xfce4-settings Version: 4.10.1-2 Severity: normal In this documentation:
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/mouse it is said that "Xfsettingsd is capable of setting all sorts of device properties", and goes about showing an example on how to set arbitrary xinput settings with xfconf. I happen to want to set the "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" setting, having only a crippled, two button mouse. The following works: xinput --set-prop 9 'Evdev Middle Button Emulation' 1 Note that I have the following input device defined: anarcat@marcos:~$ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Primax Kensington Eagle Trackball id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] According to the above documentation, I would have expected the following to work as well: xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true This does set the parameter in the xfconf registry, but doesn't propagate it to the xinput listing: anarcat@marcos:~$ xinput list-props 9 | grep 262 Evdev Middle Button Emulation (262): 0 I have also tried the following settings: xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s 1 xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t int -s 1 xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Evdev_Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c pointers -p /Primax_Kensington_Eagle_Trackball/Properties/Middle_Button_Emulation -n -t int -s 1 none would actually affect xinput. In fact, I have also tried the seemingly magic: xinput --watch-props 9 for changes, but even when i would change working settings in the mouse settings dialog (like acceleration or right/lefthandedness), no change would occur there. Therefore, there must be a problem with the documentation, or between this keyboard and chair. Please enlighten. Cheers, A. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfce4-settings depends on: ii libc6 2.19-5 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.6-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1 ii libexo-1-0 0.10.2-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-5 ii libgarcon-1-0 0.2.1-1 ii libgarcon-common 0.2.1-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.24-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1 ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.10.0-5 ii libxfce4util6 4.10.1-1 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.10.0-2 ii libxi6 2:1.7.2-1 ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1 ii xfconf 4.10.0-2 Versions of packages xfce4-settings recommends: ii x11-utils 7.7+1 ii xfce4-volumed 0.1.13-5 xfce4-settings suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
