Comment 17 for bug 46378

I'm running an up to date intrepid on a powerbook5,2.

I was running this machine with hardy just fine. F11 and F12 mapped to middle and right buttons.

After upgrading to intrepid those F keys no longer work.

/etc/sysctl.d/10-arch-specific.conf contains:

# PowerPC:
# Emulate the middle mouse button with F11 and the right with F12.
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 87
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 88

In XEV, the F11 and F12 keys (with or without Fn being pressed) return:

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x67, subw 0x0, time 1383298, (134,56), root:(685,404),
    state 0x0, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x67, subw 0x0, time 1383347, (134,56), root:(685,404),
    state 0x0, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x67, subw 0x0, time 1392454, (134,56), root:(685,404),
    state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x67, subw 0x0, time 1392504, (134,56), root:(685,404),
    state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I tried using these keycodes (95 + 96) in 10-arch-specific.conf, but still those keys don't map to button clicks.

Using sysctl directly also appears to make no difference:

sudo sysctl dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=95
sudo sysctl dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode=96

My only guess is that the keycodes themselves are messed up. Or sysctl is causing issues.

The XFCE config present when installing xubuntu-desktop on ubuntu is utterly useless without, at least, the right click mapping. On this arch this bug is of more than medium importance.