Touchpad changes behavior when using left-handed mouse

[Dmitry Petrov]

If I change mouse setting to left-handed mouse, tapping on touchpad produces context menu. I think, that it would be correctly not to change touchpad behavior when changing mouse settings

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Can you provide as much information as possible please...
such as the model number, ubuntu distribution, and anything else you may be able provide.

[Dmitry Petrov (demon-krasno)]

Sorry, I forgot about it.

Ubuntu 8.04 with all updates
Dell Vostro V1400

If you want to know anything else, just ask. I'll try to help as much as I can.

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

I can confirm this behavior on Dell Inspiron 640m and Ubuntu 8.04 To check it you need only laptop with mouse and touchpad.

As it was already suggested, tap on a touchpad should always be resolved to a left mouse button click of right handed mouse (do not know how to explain this more clearly).

There is not really convenient workaround: one may switch off treatment of taps as a mouse button clicks and use touchpad only for cursor movement and touchpad buttons for clicks.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

From an Upstream report on the same issue:
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423838)

In other words, there is no way for us to distinguish a left mouse button click from a touchpad tap. You'd have to make your hardware driver recognize the touchpad with a different button id (no idea if that's actually possible). Sorry.
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So I'm closing the bug as it's not a control-center issue