two finger tap produces right-click, three-fingers produces middle-click

[mcDavid]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

I'm using: Ubuntu 10.10 beta, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu5
Hardware Asus K50IN laptop, with multitouch-touchpad

What I expected to happen:
I expected two-finger tap to produce a middleclick event, and three-finger tap to produce a rightclick event

What happened instead:
two-finger tap produces a rightclick event, three finger tap produces a middleclick event. Two-finger scrolling however, still works perfectly fine with two fingers.

It's almost impossible to do a three-finger tap on a small touchpad, and as most laptops don't have a "hardware" button for middleclick, this makes it very hard to make a middleclick (my second-most used mousebutton) with the touchpad.

What I tried to fix it myself:
I tried to change the mousebutton mapping from 123 etc. to 132 etc. This works for the touchpad, but it also changes the "hardware" buttons under the touchpad and every other mouse. This is no option.

[mcDavid (david-ursem)]

I forgot to mention: I've got this problem since upgrading to Maverick Alpha. On Lucid, the mapping was perfectly fine.

[mcDavid (david-ursem)]

I found the solution for this bug here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1460790

I don't know why but it seems like somehow someone decided it would be a good idea just to map the tap-actions in the wrong order... I'm just glad I can fix this problem, I hope it will be reversed for other people with the same touchpad.

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi mcDavid,

Thanks for reporting bug and helping us to make ubuntu, even better. For developers to work on this bug we want to have additional information from you, about the bug.

I hope if you could upload the logs of
$ synclient -l > synclient.log

Consider referring this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection for any help.

[mcDavid (david-ursem)]

attached: sysclient.log.

    TapButton2 = 3
    TapButton3 = 2

Is it just me, or doesn't that make sense at all?

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi there,

You will happy to know that an experimental version of the 'multitouch protocol' based dkms package is released here in bug #308191 which is providing true multitouch support for people who have touchpads with true multitouch capabilities(like in some latest synaptics touchpad). So if that works for you unsubscribe here and continue there instead..

[Bartosz Wucke (bwucke)]

I suggest Ubuntu exchanges Enter and Esc keys function. This will make it even more original.

[mcDavid (david-ursem)]

Is there any status update on this bug? I've made a button now to reset the
tapbuttons to their correct value, but it's still really annoiing that i
have to click that first before it's working right...

Groeten, David

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Bartosz Wucke <email address hidden> wrote:

> I suggest Ubuntu exchanges Enter and Esc keys function. This will make
> it even more original.
>
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> two finger tap produces right-click, three-fingers produces middle-click
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646207
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> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>
> I'm using: Ubuntu 10.10 beta, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu5
> Hardware Asus K50IN laptop, with multitouch-touchpad
>
> What I expected to happen:
> I expected two-finger tap to produce a middleclick event, and three-finger
> tap to produce a rightclick event
>
> What happened instead:
> two-finger tap produces a rightclick event, three finger tap produces a
> middleclick event. Two-finger scrolling however, still works perfectly fine
> with two fingers.
>
> It's almost impossible to do a three-finger tap on a small touchpad, and as
> most laptops don't have a "hardware" button for middleclick, this makes it
> very hard to make a middleclick (my second-most used mousebutton) with the
> touchpad.
>
> What I tried to fix it myself:
> I tried to change the mousebutton mapping from 123 etc. to 132 etc. This
> works for the touchpad, but it also changes the "hardware" buttons under the
> touchpad and every other mouse. This is no option.
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/646207/+subscribe
>

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