The "areas" click-method doesn't work with "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" on "Clevo N141ZU" laptop

[Naël]

I'm trying to switch from the "fingers" click-method to the "areas" click-method, because tapping with three fingers is awkward and I find that my three-fingers taps are rarely registered as such.

* "fingers": single-finger tap for a click, two-finger tap for a right
  click, three-finger tap for a middle click
* "areas": tap in the lower right corner for a right click, tap in the
  upper right corner for a middle click

After running the following command:

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method \
  "'areas'"

I can verify with gsettings get... that the click-method is now "areas", however tapping in the lower/upper right corners of the touchpad does not elicit the expected right/middle clicks, whereas tapping with two fingers elicits a right click. This remains the case even after rebooting the computer. It's as if the click-method was ignored and defaulted to "fingers".

I couldn't find any similar bug reports and don't know how to investigate this problem further. I assume this problem is specific to my hardware, otherwise it would have been noticed already. I attach the output of the following commands:

  cat /proc/bus/input/devices
  xinput --list
  xinput --list-props 13 # where 13 is the touchpad's ID

Should I report this issue to upstream libinput (www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput)? Or could this be something to do with GNOME instead?

Using Ubuntu 20.04 with libinput 1.15.5-1 and xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.29.0-1.

[Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr)]

I have the same problem with touchpad in laptop "Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 14 with Ryzen 4700u".
My Ubuntu 20.04 setting is "Tweaks => Keyboard & Mouse => Mouse Click Emulation => Area".

With this setting: Three finger tap works as a middle click and two finger tap works as a right click which is actually incorrect behavior. I would like to use upper right corner for middle click.
I tried to install "xserver-xorg-input-synaptics", but it doesn't fix it.

The upper right corner tap worked well with my previous laptop HP Envy 13" Skylake, with installed package "xserver-xorg-input-synaptics", in Ubuntu 20.04. So the issue is HW dependent.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr)]

I forgot to mention that I'm running:
* Ubuntu 20.04.1
* xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.29.0-1
* libinput-bin 1.15.5-1
* libinput10:amd64 1.15.5-1