Emulate three button mouse

[Joe Riel]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:57:23 -0300
"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

> 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.

While that makes sense, moving the file and rebooting didn't fix it:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/80-middle-mouse-button.conf 
Section "InputClass"
     Identifier "middle button emulation class"
     MatchIsPointer "on"
     Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"

-- 
Joe Riel