In ubuntu if i click the left and mouse buttons at once it middle clicks.
Im prone to doing this by accident so i dont want it to happen
how to disable?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Ubuntu enables 'Emulate3Buttons' by default. You can disable it by editing xorg.conf and going to your mouse input device section.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
oddly my xorg.conf is empty
but x works....
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Then Xorg is using its default, built-in configuration. Write your own /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, which should take care of the problem.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
sorted it
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
In case anyone is interested,
by default /etc/X11/xorg.conf says
"Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSectionit said to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg but that just generates the same again.
i added
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSectionand it fixed it
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Couldnt help me with my other problem could you?
Ubunbu keeps screwing with the brightness. Boots up really dim and i have to battle with it (when i turn it up it turns it down again unless you hammer the key for like a minute after which it stays up until it randomly (seems to do it regardless of activity or time) dims it again.
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Automatic screen brightness adjustment has to do with gnome-power-management. Try adjusting the settings in System->Power, although there have been some bugs filed with regards to gnome-power-management automatically (and incorrectly) changing screen brightness.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yeah ive told the power manager not to change it ever yet it still does, and it does it regardless of whether its in battery or AC
I think it may be a kernel thing as it does it fairly soon after grub.
oddly it seems to be saving the brightness to NVRAM? , as the BIOS boot logo will be at whatever brightness i shut it down at
Possibly its a lenovo bug. Ive only just managed to get ubuntu on it, as past kernels used to cause it to overheat somehow.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Hurrah!!
I dist-upgraded to the bleeding-edge "jaunty jacolope" alpha branch, and it seems to have fixed the dimming issue!
And it doesn't seem to have created any problems either. I have still kept the normal Interpid repos too, so i can use apt-pinning to choose between stable or cutting edge stuff.
sillyboy 43 Practically a Master Poster
thanks for this thread, i always wanted to be able to middle click with my touch pad.
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