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  1. Bug #971783
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 971783

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h1repp (heinz-repp) wrote :

Chase Douglas (chasedouglas) wrote on 2012-05-24:
> I believe that will work, though I haven't tried it myself.

Unfortunately, this does not work, at least with my EeePC/Elantech touchpad and Precise/Unity2D. Besides, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf is abandoned. The new way is putting a new file into the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory which I did using the section above. The X-server reads it and sets the options correctly as can be seen in the Xorg.0.log. But when the system is up, synclient -l shows that the TapButton3 option has been reset to 0 (the ClickFinger3 option is kept, though). It seems that Unity resets it on start.

The solution is to add a new entry to the startup applications (System - Preferences - Startup Applications) with any name and the command "synclient TapButton3=2". This way, the option is set AFTER Unity is up, the setting persists, and triple-tap->middle-click works again as it used to do before the Unity makers decided to take it away ...