Emulate three button mouse

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:52:17 -0700
Joe Riel <joer at san.rr.com> wrote:

> How do I configure xfce4 to emulate a three button mouse?
> 
> Once I'm in X, I can manually use xinput to configure it, but
> would prefer that it was automatic.  I tried adding a file
> to /usr/share/X11/xorg.xconf.d:
> 
> $ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/80-middle-mouse-button.conf 
> Section "InputClass"
>      Identifier "middle button emulation class"
>      MatchIsPointer "on"
>      Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
> 
> however that does nothing.

Try to add that section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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