Germane to the replacement for my deceased Logitech trackball that had a separate scroll wheel and used a press on it to emulate the middle mouse button.
There are very few choices for a trackball with the 'marble' in the center where it's operated by an index or middle finger and do not have a large square footprint. The Logitech Trackman Marble and a Kensington equivalent are reasonably priced versions but both lack a scroll wheel and pressing both large buttons does nothing rather than emulating a middle-button click for pasting highlighted text. A web search found a script to enable scrolling and middle-clicking. Since xorg.conf is deprecated, the script is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the name 10-evdev.conf: Section "InputClass" Identifier "Marble Mouse" Driver "evdev" MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" MatchIsPointer "yes" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 9 3 4 5 6 7 2 8" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "3" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection (The author wrote this for the Gnome desktop and set Emulate3Buttons to false; I changed this to true.) My question is what is required to get the kernel to read this file? Logging out and back in doesn't do anything. I can't source the file because there are no executable commands. Is there anything short of a system reboot that will enable this configuration file? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug