Two-finger right click does not work in gnome-shell

[Daniel van Vugt]

Using two fingers on the clickpad to right click does not work in gnome-shell.

It seems to be defaulting to the old-style single finger click in the bottom right corner to do a right click.

Workaround:
gnome-tweak-tool > Keyboard & Mouse > Touchpad > Click Method = Fingers

Gsettings diff:
< org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'default'
---
> org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-7.12-generic 4.11.6
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 20 14:50:10 2017
DisplayManager: lightdm
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-20 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170613)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tomjleo (tomjleo)]

Thanks Daniel van Vugt! Ubuntu Tweaks "gnome-tweak-tool" workaround fixed this issue for me.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Good news:

"In GNOME 3.27.90, the GNOME default mouse click emulation on touchpads will change from 'default' to 'fingers'."

[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/issues/117]

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I forgot to close this bug in my gsettings-desktop-schemas upload yesterday.

I included a bit of background about this change at
https://jeremy.bicha.net/2018/02/12/gnome-tweaks-3-28-progress-report-2/

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks.

Although to refer to clickpads as a "Mac" feature that's new to Windows laptops is probably a bit outdated. Most laptops, for many years of late, fall into this category.

[Eugene Savelov (savelov)]

strangely I think that defaulting to two-fingers click as a right mouse button is not apparent to me - and I was not able to find switch between two-finger click and right in standard settings in 18.04, instead it exists only in gnome-tweak-tool. if this is really new behaviour, it makes sense to include this setting in basic ubuntu mouse settings

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I completely agree. It is annoying that basic settings are missing in the Settings app.

If it bothers you enough then please log a bug directly with the upstream developers in their new bug tracker:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Now tracking in bug 2024135.