Separate Primary button setting for Mouse and Trackpads

[Shai Gluskin]

In System Settings => Mouse/Trackpad there is a "General" setting to determine which is the primary button, left or right on a mouse. The problem is that if one chooses "right" it also has the affect of changing the behavior on a trackpad: it makes a one-finger tap secondary and a two-finger tap primary.

I think it would be a great improvement to separate mouse and trackpad behavior on this one. In my case, when using a mouse with my laptop hooked up to my external monitor, I use the mouse with my left hand and my index finger lands comfortably on the right button. So I want the right button to be primary.

But when I'm using the trackpad, typically when I'm out of the office, I'd much prefer one-finger tap for primary and two-finger tap for secondary. The reason why I want the right mouse-button to be primary has nothing to do with the trackpad at all. Hence, it would be a big improvement to separate these settings.

Thanks for the great OS!

I'm running:
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Here is what I get when I run: apt-cache policy unity-control-center

 Installed: 14.04.3+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 14.04.3+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 14.04.3+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     14.04.3+14.04.20140410-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Aug 11 10:43:18 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_unity-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu14
 deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.