Ubuntu MATE

right click is being treated as left click

Bug #1723212 reported by Christopher Patrick on 2017-10-12

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu MATE	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When i right click on anything on my trackpad on a icon in the munity layout or in Firefox to copy text i selected it does what a left click would do and the left click works as expected. I'm running Ubuntu Mate 17.10. Attached is my hardware information.

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Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote on 2017-10-12:

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Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) on 2017-10-12

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote on 2017-10-12:

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1723212

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Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote on 2017-10-25:

I still have this problem in the final release of Ubuntu Mate 17.10

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Mieszko Piast (mieszko1st-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2017-10-29:

A workaround for this issue is installing Synaptic driver as described in comments to following bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1725210