Upgrade to 18.04 resets touchpad behavior to default, overriding existing GNOME settings
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Ubuntu 18.04 defaults to setting the secondary (right) click on a touchpad to two-finger mode rather than the more common left and right buttons.
It took me a while to figure out what was going on and how to fix it, having found this page explaining the situation:
https:/
There are two separate but closely related issues, either or both of which may constitute a bug.
1. When GNOME was installed prior to the upgrade to 18.04, the prior setting should be respected rather than reset to default. I simply lost the ability to secondary (right) click from the touchpad with no notice. Both left and right buttons acted as primary clicks.
2. My touchpad (Acer V3-574) has hardware left and right buttons, and my understanding from the documentation is that the two-finger method should not be enabled in that case. I was unable to get the two-finger method to work.
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1759300, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.