How do I get my right- and middle-click back?

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I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04.1 on my Macbook 7,1 and the first thing I noticed was that I couldn't right-click by clicking on the clickpad with two fingers, or middle-click by clicking with three, as I had been. According to everywhere, there's now "better clickpad support" but the only thing I see is that things have stopped working. How can I get things back to the way they were? Note that I do not want to right-click by clicking on the bottom-right area of the clickpad.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '12 at 22:04

I solved this problem by using synclient.

synclient ClickPad=0 # Even though I'm using a clickpad, this
                     # setting inhibits multi-finger click.
synclient ClickFinger3=2 # Add the 3-finger click in order to
                         # middle click.

Everything now works as it should.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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I don't know much about Apple hardware but I'd try opening a terminal and running xev. If you place your cursor over the white window and click buttons, you'd at least see if the xserver is receiving those events at all.

Then, I'd probably personalise the keys using xinput, as I did suggest here.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Oct 18 '12 at 01:07

Marcin Kaminski

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How do I get my right- and middle-click back?

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