Comment 17 for bug 1759300

Prior to the the version of gnome that ships with 18.04, both forms of
right-click worked out of the box. Sure, there are other trackpads that
don't have the area-based right click, so maybe it's not just "tuned for
Mac", but it is tuned for a pretty narrow set of hardware. Whether it was
intentional or not, the change felt like a regression and functionality
wise it still is, because you have to chose between the two behaviors, and
you can't have both. On my touchpad, at least, right-clicking with two
fingers is very unergonomic, because you have to be very precise with
finger spacing and timing. Too close, and you get a left-click, if you
don't hit the track pad fairly hard and at exactly the same time, it
scrolls instead of right-clicking. Apple tunes for this, and it works well
on their hardware, but Dell doesn't, and it doesn't.

It would be nice if we could have both behaviors enabled by default. Seems
like that would accommodate the most people. Especially just after 18.04
was released, I couldn't find any information on fixing this.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 18:10 Daniel van Vugt <<email address hidden>
wrote:

> "tuned for Mac users" is incorrect, as is the term "normal touchpads" to
> refer to personal preference, as is the assertion that people didn't ask
> for the feature. ChromeOS laptops only support two-fingers to right
> click. And you will find the majority of modern Windows laptops also
> support two fingers to right click out of the box. Sometimes in addition
> to corner support, but read on...
>
> If there is paint on the touchpad of some specific laptop model
> designating fake buttons, we can't detect that in software. Corner
> clicking is also a bad idea for usability because it forces the user to
> look at the touchpad in order to know which virtual button they are
> clicking. Using two fingers however does not require looking at the
> touchpad, only feeling that both fingers are on it.
>
> That all said, a fix for the discoverability of the setting is planned
> for a future release: https://trello.com/c/i3JvebJ9 which will be enough
> to make everyone happy, regardless of the default setting.
>
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> Title:
> Gnome Shell: Touchpad right click (bottom right) area does not work
>
> Status in gsettings-desktop-schemas package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> The right (second) touchpad click does not work.
> It ceased to work about three months ago.
> ubuntu 18,04 aser ex2519
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