touchpad button acts strange

Bug #321646 reported by Sancho
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Bug Description

After upgrade to Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), the left touchpad button acts strangely.
Sometimes it double-clicks, sometimes it also copies the actualy selected piece of text to clipboard, sometimes it just types zeros, etc.
I simply cannot use it, so I am using tapping on the touchpad, but it is strange and I'd like to have the usual behaviour.
All packages should be up-to-date from the development branch of Jaunty.

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Sancho (sancho-sancho) wrote :

Oh, one more thing - in Firefox, in most of the cases, clicking with the left touchpad button opens link in new window. Clicking using the tapping opens the link correctly.

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Tijmen Ruizendaal (timing) (tijmen-ruizendaal) wrote :

I think I have the same problem. Also running Jaunty.

I can add a different thing:

If I select text (for example in a terminal) and I replace my finger on the touchpad while holding the left button down (which means I want to keep selecting text) it'll paste the already selected text at the current cursor location. The selection is gone. So I guess it ends the selection if I remove my finger from the touchpad. But it also pastes immediately because I still have the left mousebutton down.

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Festr (festr2) wrote :

I've compiled the latest git version of synaptics driver and the left button is OK now.

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