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fremantle

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Registered: 2012-10-07

Posts: 1

Hi! New crunchbang user - how to enable clickpad right click?

I have a modern clickpad in my laptop, and its been confusing right clicking with it on linux. Right clicked worked in 10.04 and 12.10 versions of ubuntu. I am a long term ubuntu user now moving to crunchbang and so far i love it. my only problem is the right click. the system recognizes my clickpad as one entire left click button. so when i try to right click, it works as a left click. is there any solution to this problem?

also, how to disable touchpad when im typing?

fr3d0

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Registered: 2012-11-26

Posts: 1

Re: Hi! New crunchbang user - how to enable clickpad right click?

I'm trying to get my hp mini 210 clickpad to work as well.. no right clicking, no drag+drop.

I've managed to get the broadcom wireless and broadcom crystal hd card working with archbang, everything works snappy and great...
But the clickpad issue remains.

I tested some settings with synclient and managed to get drag+drop working but I didnt save the settings and havent reproduced it yet unfortunately.

Would really like to figure this out..I've tried modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf:

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
	Option "Clickpad" "1"
        Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

I've read maybe upgrading the kernel helps, mine is 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae

I've read the xorg synaptics driver is the culprit as well..

I ran: egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices
which tells me my clickpad is: N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

Anyone get this working?

eliezer40

New Member

Registered: 2013-03-28

Posts: 5

Re: Hi! New crunchbang user - how to enable clickpad right click?

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=25688

I was able to fix it - above is the link for the steps I took.