Bug 46848 – mouseemu ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Colin Leroy 2004-04-05 06:13:14 UTC]

Mouseemu is a tool to emulate middle click, right click, wheel and block trackpad input. It's mainly useful for PPC owners with one-button Apple mice.
It requires kernel 2.6 with uinput.

The tgz is at http://geekounet.org/powerbook/files/mouseemu.tar.gz
The init script at http://colino.net/tmp/mouseemu.init

[Comment 1 DiskBreaker 2004-07-07 03:16:51 UTC]

I stumbled upon this tool on the web and found it quite useful for my one-button PowerBook Touchpad, so I've made an ebuild for it. There are several different kernel-patches floating around to accomplish especially mousewheel-emulation, but I think doing this in userspace is the way to go. If the functionality of this tool is expanded a bit more (e.g. mousewheel emulation by using one side of the touchpad, option to use Ctrl-Click for right mouse button like in OS X etc.) we could even integrate it in powerprefs since it is really useful for PPC laptops.

Attached please find the app-laptop/mouseemu-0.12.ebuild. Also included is a patch (mouseemu-0.12-fix.diff) to have a /etc/mouseemu.conf file for configuration. The ebuild also installs an init script at /etc/init.d/mouseemu so you can start mouseemu when booting.

Have fun,
DiskBreaker

[Comment 2 DiskBreaker 2004-07-07 03:28:31 UTC]

Created attachment 34900 [details]
mouseemu-0.12.ebuild

[Comment 3 DiskBreaker 2004-07-07 03:29:18 UTC]

Created attachment 34901 [details, diff]
mouseemu-0.12-fix.diff

[Comment 4 Colin Leroy 2004-08-11 02:10:07 UTC]

ping: any news on this?

[Comment 5 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 17:00:30 UTC]

in cvs

[Comment 6 Khan Thompson 2004-10-15 05:34:27 UTC]

I had to edit the makefile to read:

all:
      gcc -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -g -o mouseemu mouseemu.c

for it to work, im not sure how its going in cvs

[Comment 7 Khan Thompson 2004-10-15 05:39:22 UTC]

Sorry about that last comment, i didnt even bother to look at the patch