Touchpad scroll and middle/right click not working as expected

Bug #1766480 reported by Misaki
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Bug Description

This could probably fixed through configuration, but it should work automatically. Testing Ubuntu 18.04 beta, the touchpad has no special regions for scrolling or anything.

By default in Xorg-based Ubuntu, top right corner of touchpad is middle-click (mouse button 2), bottom right is right-click (mouse button 3), and right side is vertical scrolling. For a while the bottom edge defaulted to horizontal scrolling, but that changed in 17.10 or something.

I'm aware that new touchpad interaction methods have developed, like dragging with two fingers anywhere on the touchpad to scroll or something. But people may not know this, or their touchpad might not support multitouch.

(The Xorg-based settings for touchpad remain when switching back to Xorg like with the Metacity Flashback login option.)

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

The settings you refer to are intentionally disabled by default, because they conflict with modern clickpad usage. But they are still available if you want to turn them on.

To enable edge scrolling look in:
 Settings > Devices > Mouse & Touchpad > Touchpad > Edge Scrolling = ON

To enable button areas:
 1. Install package 'gnome-tweaks'
 2. In Gnome Tweaks > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse Click Emulation = Area

You may also be interested to try the alternate touchpad driver (only works in Xorg sessions) by adding/removing package 'xserver-xorg-input-synaptics'.

affects: wayland (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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