I think we need to consider this a bit deeper. There is still hardware in the wild that appears to need this emulated functionality to do middle mouse button clicking, for example:
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=643 ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-evdev in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710762 Title: Middle mouse button no longer works _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp