Right click doesn't work on HP mini 210 touchpad

Question

Need help in getting the right mouse click to work on a HP mini 210-1015TU when using the touchpad.

If I plug in a USB mouse, both left click and right click function as normal. Using the touchpad however I can only get the left click to work. Attempting to right click gives the result expected from a left click. As per some comments on a forum I added a file 11-touchpad.conf to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. I can provide further details if required.

This made touchpad operation noticeably smoother but the problem with the right mouse click remains. Not a hardware problem as right clicked worked with 10.04 and still works with Windows 7 starter. 10.10 installed using wubi.

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 18 '17 at 21:24

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You may also be interested in installing gpointing-device-settings package, which will provide more configuration options for your touchpad.

sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

Once installed you find it under System -> Preferences -> Pointing Devices.

edited Feb 18 '17 at 21:24

Zanna

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answered Nov 16 '10 at 14:42

MagicFab

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 02 '11 at 05:52

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is that i'm going to input:

sudo su (Enter your password)

echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe
reboot

p/s: since i'm a newbie, i need to confirm the command to solve my problem at hp mini 210-1073TU.

edited Jan 02 '11 at 05:52

Jorge Castro

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answered Dec 04 '10 at 07:26

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 11 '12 at 12:16

I've found a workaround which worked with my Lenovo Edge E320 with a clickpad.

Just create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51.clickpad.conf and paste the following content:

Section "InputClass" 

Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
MatchDriver "synaptics" 
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"

EndSection

After a restart of the xserver the clickpad worked just fine and the mulitouch features are now operational.

Source: Ubuntuusers.de

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 19 '10 at 09:57

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try TAPPING the lower right corner of the touchpad instead of clicking the button

answered Oct 19 '10 at 09:57

marto

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 29 '15 at 00:27

Just create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51.clickpad.conf and paste the following content:

Section "InputClass" 
Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
MatchDriver "synaptics" 
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection*

This works great on an HP pavilion 15 p132nd, for anyone experiencing a rightclick problem on this system. After adding the new file and the lines as in the post, just restart the system to make it work.

Right click doesn't work on HP mini 210 touchpad

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