Bug 1433033

Summary:	middle mouse click works inproperly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matt Jamison <jamisonm>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	jamisonm, peter.hutterer
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Description Matt Jamison 2017-03-16 15:43:46 UTC

Description of problem:
clicking on the middle mouse button doesn't respond like the left/right click

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 25, fully updated.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gnome-control-center mouse
2. click on "test your settings"
3. press down the left/right mouse buttons but don't release.  You'll see that the ring shows a mouse press then goes away.  All while the mouse button has been pressed and unreleased.
4. press without releasing the middle mouse button and nothing registers.  Furthermore, even a slow press and release registers nothing.

Actual results:


Expected results:
middle click should act like left/right buttons.

Additional info:
This is on a Lenovo t460p laptop and I'm using the buttons on the laptop.  Plugging in an external mouse works normally.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2017-05-09 22:27:10 UTC

does a quick press/release register anything? The button you press logically belongs to the trackpoint and we set up middle button scrolling on those by default (middle button + up/down on the trackpoint generates scroll events).

because of that, we swallow long clicks because we expect them to be emulated. there's a patchset somewhere to fix that, but it's not applied yet afaict.

Comment 2 Matt Jamison 2017-05-10 00:15:41 UTC

I grabbed libinput-1.7.0-1.fc27.x86_64 out of rawhide and now it's much better.

a middle click is now registered on release of the middle mouse button.
middle clicking on a usb mouse registers upon middle click press down.

This is expected behavior and this bug can now be closed.

thanks,

jamo

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2017-05-10 08:35:27 UTC

ok, thanks for testing, much appreciated.