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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Tommy Will <tommywill2011@gmail.com>
Cc: Dylan Paul Thurston <dpthurst@indiana.edu>,
	Yunkang Tang <yunkang.tang@cn.alps.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Another ALPS touchpad
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:47:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140105234723.GA32292@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+F6ckMzRnP2E--nimZA+-cfR_wmbsN4hPvr4AONt4J_c_X4kw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 10:53:52AM +0800, Tommy Will wrote:
> 2014/1/4 Dylan Paul Thurston <dpthurst@indiana.edu>:
> >
> > I didn't quite follow this or the following discussion. One thing I
> > wanted to look into was whether it was possible to have a middle mouse
> > click in addition to the left and right clicks.
> 
> Normally, clickpad only supports Left/Right click. I'm afraid middle
> click would not be supported as standard.

On devices that lack middle button middle click is usually emulated by
pressing both left and right buttons. Also, since this is multi-touch
device quite often middle click is mapped on 2- or 3-finger tap. All of
that is done in X driver and not in kernel.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-05 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03  4:59 Another ALPS touchpad Dylan Paul Thurston
2014-01-03 23:39 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-04  5:27   ` Tommy Will
2014-01-04  5:40     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-04  6:08       ` Tommy Will
2014-01-04  6:18         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-04  6:32           ` Tommy Will
2014-01-04 13:31     ` Dylan Paul Thurston
2014-01-05  2:53       ` Tommy Will
2014-01-05 23:47         ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2014-01-06  3:16           ` Tommy Will

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