One thing I remember being excited about when moving from Windows to Linux was using my middle mouse button to paste. I somewhat recently got a Apple Wireless Trackpad and lost this ability as there is no middle mouse button. (As far as I knew at the time, but it looks like the upper right corner is a middle click.) I discovered that I could set a three finger tap to middle click and subsequently paste by the following:
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop "Apple Wireless Trackpad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 2 3 0 0 1 3 2
However, running that on every reboot, and battery change in the trackpad was rather annoying. With the advent of upstart user jobs (the real point of this post) I thought one would be a good way to set this functionality.
I put the following in a file named magicpad-paste.conf in my ~/.config/upstart/ directory:
description "Enable three finger middle click with an Apple Trackpad"
author "Brian Murray “
start on :sys:input-device-added NAME='"Apple Wireless Trackpad"'
script
DATE=$(date)
echo "$DATE Apple Wireless Trackpad detected"
it seems that a sleep is needed for the device to become fully available
sleep 5
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop "Apple Wireless Trackpad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 2 3 0 0 1 3 2
end script .. cntd
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