Comment 34 for bug 754000

In this case, a *click* means you have a clickpad which itself is one big button that can be depressed and makes a clicking sound. Like on an Apple Macbook, Magic Trackpad, or some HP laptops. Particularly, the button of a clickpad can be pressed and released without the fingers lifting off the clickpad/touchpad. So clicking a clickpad is different to tapping on a touchpad.

I have two suggestions that might work on an EeePC:

1. [Alex's workaround] Touch each finger down at a slightly different time. This seems to bypass the gesture recognition and lets you do a good-old middle button tap.

2. Use the buttons on your touchpad - Pressing both at the same time should generate a middle click. Run "man synaptics" for more info on that.