GNOME’s Mutter Finally Wires Up Middle Button Click Emulation

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Michael Larabel
Mar 16, 2020

For at least a year have been requests for supporting middle button emulation on GNOME in its native back-end that is used under Wayland (and similar bug reports / feature requests longer). While libinput has the middle button click emulation code, it hasn’t been tied into Mutter. But now that support is merged.

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Michael Larabel

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