Focaltech touchpad right click doesn't work

[Jamie Sterling]

Ubuntu Mate 17.10

Fresh install of the latest OS and the Focaltech touchpad right click doesn't work on my Asus laptop. Right click OK on Logitech mouse, but obviously very inconvenient with no right click on touchpad.

[Alexander Browne (elcste)]

AFAIK 17.10 is the first release to use the libinput touchpad driver by default and drop the synaptics driver, but synaptics stills works if you install it (or upgrade from an install that had it like my current system). So try installing synaptics

    sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

and reboot.

[Jamie Sterling (mailtojamie)]

Thanks for your advice. I'll try installing the synaptics driver.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, 22:50 Alexander Browne, <email address hidden> wrote:

> AFAIK 17.10 is the first release to use the libinput touchpad driver by
> default and drop the synaptics driver, but synaptics stills works if you
> install it (or upgrade from an install that had it like my current
> system). So try installing synaptics
>
> sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>
> and reboot.
>
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> Title:
> Focaltech touchpad right click doesn't work
>
> Status in ubuntu-mate:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu Mate 17.10
>
> Fresh install of the latest OS and the Focaltech touchpad right click
> doesn't work on my Asus laptop. Right click OK on Logitech mouse, but
> obviously very inconvenient with no right click on touchpad.
>
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[Jamie Sterling (mailtojamie)]

I have taken Alexander's advice above and installed the Synaptics driver. Pleased to say this has fixed the right click problem with the Focaltech touchpad.

This does mean the libinput touchpad driver is broken and this bug needs to stay open until that is fixed. Thanks.

[Mieszko Piast (mieszko1st-deactivatedaccount)]

Same thing on Dell Inspiron 5548 touchpad -- right click button does not work on Ubuntu Mate 17.10.
I tried the pure Ubuntu 17.10 and there is no problem with that.

[Mieszko Piast (mieszko1st-deactivatedaccount)]

Same thing on Dell Inspiron 5548 touchpad -- right click button does not work on Ubuntu Mate 17.10.
I tried the pure Ubuntu 17.10 and there is no problem with that.
Adding sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics helps.

[Alexander Browne (elcste)]

> I tried the pure Ubuntu 17.10 and there is no problem with that.

IIRC GNOME *only* supports libinput now, so Ubuntu (Desktop/Gnome) 17.10 must be using it, not Synaptics. So that makes it seem like this issue is with MATE's support for libinput, not libinput itself.