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FS#71132 - Middle mouse button ignored in Gnome 3 with Wayland

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Y.G. (theYinYeti) - Saturday, 05 June 2021, 14:19 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 06 June 2021, 10:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
For a month (more or less), my middle mouse button has stopped being recognized. This entails a loss in features:
* I cannot copy-and-paste using the historic selection-and-middle-click gesture.
* I cannot close a browser tab by middle-clicking on it (Firefox).
* I cannot lower a window by middle-clicking its title-bar.
* I cannot open the window-menu anywhere in the window area, by middle-clicking while holding the Super key (right-clicking is for resizing).

… and probably other things I forgot.

I tried running Xev (probably relying on Xwayland), but the middle mouse button has no effect.
I tried `cat /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-if02-event-mouse` but the middle mouse button does not trigger garbage output (nothing at all in fact).
Note: In Gnome Tweaks, copy-pasting using the middle button is enabled.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
local/gnome-desktop 1:40.1-1
local/gnome-firmware 3.36.0-2
local/gnome-session 40.1.1-1 (gnome)
local/gnome-settings-daemon 40.0.1-1 (gnome)
local/gnome-shell 1:40.1-2 (gnome)
local/gnome-video-effects 0.5.0+4+g9554041-2 (gnome)
local/mutter 40.1-1 (gnome)
local/wayland 1.19.0-1
local/wayland-protocols 1.21-1
* config and/or log files etc.
Nothing particular, that I know of…
* link to upstream bug report, if any
I did not find anything on the Internet :-(

Steps to reproduce:
Run Gnome 3.
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Sunday, 06 June 2021, 10:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 06 June 2021, 09:13 GMT
> I tried `cat /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-if02-event-mouse` but the middle mouse button does not trigger garbage output (nothing at all in fact).

If you want to see the events coming from the kernel, run `evemu-record` (without arguments) from the evemu package.
Comment by Y.G. (theYinYeti) - Sunday, 06 June 2021, 09:58 GMT
Thanks Jan! I had encountered the name of this tool already, but I was not sure it was the right tool, so I did not take the time to find how to correctly use it…
Anyway, I did as you suggested, and indeed, absolutely _nothing_ happens when I click the middle button, whereas the other buttons and relative moves are correctly detected.
Comment by Y.G. (theYinYeti) - Sunday, 06 June 2021, 10:27 GMT
Hum… I am a bit embarrassed. It appears to be a hardware issue after all…

After having failed to get a middle-click event in plain Fluxbox/X11, I tried another mouse and then I got the event!
Just to be on the safe side (in case there would be a recent software misbehaviour specifically with my mouse…), I rebooted to an old Puppy, and I could verify that the situation remained the same.

So, it’s a non-issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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