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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

  1. Bug #947354
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Comment 1 for bug 947354

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MatatTHC (matatthc) wrote :

I can confirm this problem for a Samsung Series 7. I found a partial solution for this.

Check if the ClickPad option is on (synclient -l | grep ClickPad). You can set it with: synclient ClickPad=1. Then you need to tell the areas that should be considered as right or middle mouse botton. With synclient RightButtonAreaLeft=1500 RightButtonAreaTop=1700. It seems to be not necessary to set the lower and right borders.

You can find the info on the "coordinate system" of the pad in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

So far I was not able to set the area for the middle button. I get an error from synclient telling me that the value is wrong.... I also can not set the options in xorg.conf. The RightBottonArea* options seemt to be ignored. So currently I set the options by calling synclient in .profile .

I consider the following to things as bug:
- the ClickPad option should be set automatically.
- The Area Options are not recognized in xorg.conf