[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:33 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:01 +0330, ali.mousavi at gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess to enable this you first need to install the package
> > > xf86-input-mouse.
> > 
> > 
> > AFAK there is usually no need to install the "xf86-input-mouse" package. my
> > mouse is working just fine. copying and pasting using mouse is handled with
> > X and it doesn't have anything to do with the driver. Just check your X
> > settings or your DE and see if something is wrong.
> 
> There are different ways to set up a mouse. It hasn't to be done by any
> file inside /etc/X11. On Debian I edited another file, can't remember
> it's location. Anyway, wheel emulation could be an issue.
> 
> I guess the wheel emulation is a X setting somewhere in /etc, e.g.
> xorg.conf and that ominous file I can't remember, but perhaps the option
> to use the third button for C&P is a task of the DE.
> 
> I want to get rid of the C&P option :D. Shortcuts and mouse options at
> the moment are less important for me, so I didn't search for it, I still
> try to get an audio out signal :(.
> 
> Anyway, there are new issues for the mouse on current Linux. When I was
> using Debian I had to get rid of my PS/2 mouse, because the wheel didn't
> work. I bought a USB mouse. The USB mouse was ok, but after some
> upgrades no mouse worked anymore. For Arch my USB mouse is ok again.
> 
> - Ralf
PS:
FWIW I don't have xf86-input-keyboard installed, but I guess without a
DE

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "keyboard"
       MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
       Option "XkbLayout" "de"
       #Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

does set up the keyboard. Can't remember and won't test it now.

Last year I noticed that some thingies that worked the last 9 years with
Linux stopped working, one of those thingies for me is an old mouse.
Regarding to X a widespread issue seems to be that the nv driver is
dropped, fortunately Arch still includes it to the repositories.