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Possible to make triple click on touchpad = middle click?
I tried the steps here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/130393/how-to-configure-the-touchpad-middle-click
but it did not work for me. Has anyone success with this?
a.l.e
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July 16th, 2016 10:00
for what it's worth: debain testing + xps 13 2016: dumping three fingers on the touchpad gives me a middle click...
no special setup was necessary.
mmirg
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July 16th, 2016 14:00
The procedure for enabling three-finger middle click seems to vary between using the synaptics driver or libinput for the touchpad. The instructions posted above using synclient work with the synaptics driver but when I switched to libinput I adding Option "ClickMethod" "clickfinger" to my touchpad section in xorg.conf seemed to do the trick.
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July 16th, 2016 16:00
mmirg
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July 17th, 2016 09:00
Here's a link explaining how to do this:
bartongeorge.net/.../
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July 17th, 2016 15:00
Great thank you!
cloph
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July 18th, 2016 11:00
at least with 9343 version, the synaptics driver has better experience for the touchpad compared to libinput one. The libinput one has problems starting to scroll. When you start a two-finger scroll, you have to drag quite a distance for the drag to start, slow/fine grained scrolling is very hard to do, as it is not really predictable when scrolling starts, and if it does at what speed. That experience is much better with synaptics driver.
Hopefully current libinput driver has better behavior in this regard.