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damaru

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From: canada

Registered: 2011-12-13

Posts: 47

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(kind of solved) touchpad lost right click after using a mouse

For some reason my tracking pad lost it's right click capabilities :S

I try to install gpointing-device-setting to see if there would be anything there, but it's quite minimal.

I run waldorf, with the nvidia kernel + drivers. I doubt that it was the install of the nvidia that kill my right click on the computer, but there might be some links. I am on eee pc 1204n.

What should I look for to see what setting are on my touchpad?

here is my xorg config if that is the place I should hack around :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Could it be X was re-setup with the mouse as the main pointer ? not sure what to add there to have the trackpad back.

Last edited by damaru (2012-08-13 20:15:13)

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damaru

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From: canada

Registered: 2011-12-13

Posts: 47

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Re: (kind of solved) touchpad lost right click after using a mouse

I got to play with 'synclient' to find out about what would work.

I finally had to create a 50-synaptics.conf  in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

and input :

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "ClickFinger2" "3"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
EndSection

So it didn't fix my right click button but gave me access to the right click with 3 finger. I have the Tapbutton and the ClickFinger in there since I could find information about which one is which and I've put both...

[EDIT]

It's all setup in the openbox startup script....

Last edited by damaru (2012-08-13 21:55:08)

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