Comment 4 for bug 272334

I think the last response is missing the point of the bug report. The reporter just wants an easy way, using the standard Ubuntu preferences tools, to set the status of middle button emulation. He is not asking for evdev to be reverted.

I am in a similar position: with evdev, I cannot change the autorepeat delay and rate for the keyboard. I would be very happy if xset r rate was made to work again; at the moment it changes the settings that it reports, but they do not affect the interpretation of the keyboard.

Hence, I think this bug should not be marked "wontfix", as the thing being requested is in fact quite reasonable: simply to make the standard configuration utilities work again.