Bug 494644

Summary:	Request: better mouse button emulation: mouseemu
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	harald, richard
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de/~schmitz/mouseemu/
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Description Jeremy Huddleston 2009-04-07 17:23:03 UTC

Description of problem:

Using a 1-button mouse with linux is a pita.  The mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation fails because it sends the original key press in addition to the emulated button... plus it doesn't support things like control-click for right click.

Other distros (gentoo, ubuntu, debian, mandriva, suse) use mouseemu for this support, but I can't seem to find it for Fedora.

The latest sources can be found here as they've been taken over by a new bugfix maintaier with many patches from debian integrated:
http://www.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de/~schmitz/mouseemu/

Debian: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/mouseemu
Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/hardy/mouseemu
SuSE: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/server10/sp1/ppc/mouseemu.html

It looks like hal might need some patching or settings updated to support this because when I run mouseemu after compiling it myself, the laptop keyboard stops responding (make sure you have a usb keyboard handy to plug in and get control back).

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2009-04-07 18:08:20 UTC

why is this a udev bug?

Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston 2009-04-07 22:10:12 UTC

My brain crossed wires somewhere... I meant hal

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2009-04-08 08:41:30 UTC

Can you explain why this is a hal bug? Thanks.

Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston 2009-04-08 08:58:19 UTC

richard, see the last paragraph of the original description:

"It looks like hal might need some patching or settings updated to support this because when I run mouseemu after compiling it myself, the laptop keyboard stops responding (make sure you have a usb keyboard handy to plug in and get control back)."

Comment 5 Richard Hughes 2009-04-08 10:51:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> might need some patching or settings updated to support this

Such as...

Richard.

Comment 6 Jeremy Huddleston 2009-04-22 07:45:02 UTC

Quoting from the original description:

It looks like hal might need some patching or settings updated to support this because when I run mouseemu after compiling it myself, the laptop keyboard
stops responding (make sure you have a usb keyboard handy to plug in and get control back).

Try it for yourself, but keep a keyboard handy to plug in.

Comment 7 Richard Hughes 2009-04-22 08:58:46 UTC

I'm sorry, but you need to be a load more specific than "patching or settings updated" after you've compiled something outside of fedora that then makes HAL break. 

If I said to you that I had compiled a program from source, and now the power button has stopped working, you would tell me to fix my broken program.

This isn't a Fedora specific bug, and so please can you either email the mouseemu mailing list, the hal mailing list, or open a bug on freedesktop.org. Thanks.