Ubuntu / Apple :: Alternatives To Two-finger Right-clicking?
Dec 22, 2010
I'm finding it really annoying having to right click by holding two fingers on the touchpad and then clicking. Usually when I set my two fingers down when I'm on the target, it scrolls the screen a bit and I end up having to scroll back to the target. This annoyance is really not going away.Does anyone know of another alternative for right-clicking besides using two fingers on the touchpad? I'd really like to set the "fn" key to do it (as I don't use it for anything anymore) - is this possible?
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Jun 17, 2011
I just installed ubuntu 11.04 on my macbook 2,1 and noticed that the trackpad was having many issues with detecting my finger, it works fine in OSX. I found this post, but cant find the xorg.config file and read that it no longer exists in ubuntu 11.04 (and yes, I know that that page is for 10.10, but it should still work). Is there anywhere that I could put in that code to make the trackpad more responsive?Is there any way I can make a two finger tap register as a right mouse click?
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Mar 22, 2011
I've just got the multi-touch driver work with ubuntu 10.10 64bit on my alumni macbook. Now I can do scroll and right click with two fingers. However, one thing I really miss is the ability to move the cursor while holding the 'big button', I want to drag windows/icons with one finger holding down the physical button, and another finger dragging around.
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Mar 27, 2010
I spent the last hour and a half googling for pointers, reading manpages,and trying synaptics settings to get my touchpad to work like it does in OSX on my unibody macbook pro.I can't find anything that works.What I want: Since my MBP 5,4 doesn't have a dedicated mouse button, I normally rest my thumb on the bottom section of the touchpad.That way I can tap with my thumb while using my index finger to move the pointer.OS X smartly ignores the fact that my thumb is resting on the touchpad,and lets me move the pointer as if my thumb weren't there.I can then use my middle finger for two finger scrolling, and everything magically works
On my nice shiny new install of Ubuntu 9.10, if I have my thumb anywhere on the touchpad, it registers as a two-finger scroll,thus making it impossible to move the pointer while resting my thumb on the touchpad.Even if I disable two-finger scrolling, the cursor will not move with two fingers on the touchpad.A passable solution would be disable two-finger scrolling detection in the lower part of my touchpad, or even disable the lower part of the touchpad completely.A better solution would be to allow me to scroll into the lower portion, but not initiate a two finger scroll from the lower portion.
Synaptics settings that have not worked for me:
AreaBottomEdge: This disables moving the pointer from the bottom section of my touchpad, but does not disable two-finger scrolling from the bottom section. This is essentially the exact opposite of what I want.
BottomEdge: This doesn't seem to have any relation to two-finger scrolling.I haven't been able to get anything useful to come out of setting this.These references haven't helped (although they are interesting):I haven't been able to find any threads discussing this particular issue.
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Feb 3, 2011
i upgraded from f13 to f14 using preupgrade.
now, as the title suggests, the two finger tap acts as a right click, and the three button tab acts as a middle click. and also the tap to click seems disabled by default.
after reading this page, [URL], i created a 50-synaptics.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and put this inside.
Code:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
[Code].....
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Dec 9, 2010
I've been able to get two finger scrolling working thanks to ptosiani's solution in this thread: [URL]
The problem is if I restart my computer, two finger scrolling doesn't work anymore and I have to go through the process again to get it working. Does anybody have some insight on this problem?
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Apr 30, 2010
I've freshly installed Lucid on Acer Aspire One 250. I had 9.10 before and two-finger scrolling was working with modification on the 11-x11synaptic.fdi file.
However, now with 10.04, the option in mouse properties is grey ed out... Any way to re-enable it?
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Jan 3, 2011
can i change the behavior of my touchpad so that when i tap it with two fingers it emulates a middle mouse button click (mouse 3). Right now when I tap two fingers it emulates a right-click.
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Jun 26, 2011
I most recently ran a developer preview of os x 10.7 Lion, and in that OS two finger scrolling was inverted (ie, moving two fingers upward on the touchpad would scroll you down the page). I love that I didn't need any extra drivers to get two finger scrolling working with ubuntu 11.04 on my 3rd gen mac air, and am super impressed with all the out of the box drivers for my mac; but I'm wondering if there's a way to invert the two finger scrolling directions. There must be... It's probably technically involved and will necessitate modify x11 files or something, but I think there must be a way.
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Aug 5, 2011
I've got a laptop with a touchpad. When my cursor is in a text box (ie: this one or abiword or email) and I touch my touchpad with two fingers it automatically pastes whatever is on the "clipboard." How can I make it so when I touch my touchpad with two fingers it does NOT paste any text?
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Nov 17, 2010
I have a hp mini 2140,which is a netbook with a small webcam.I'm not that kind of person who really use the webcam.So basically the webcam is useless.Surfing the web,I found that someone can control their cursor with head using webcam and eviacam.But I don't think it is the right software for me.Searching ubuntu's software center,I found a program called"Mousetrap"I installed it in my desktop pc and it worked. Unfortunately,when i try to install it on my netbook,it couldn't start.
I watched the "Six sense"video again.I notice that the man sticks red tape on his finger to help computer to id his finger.How can I control the cursor using finger with webcam?Creating multi touch in ubuntu,is it possible?
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Jan 20, 2011
I have gpointing devices 1-4 installed on ubuntu 10.10. The vertical and horizontal scrol both used to work. I have the latest 1.1.1 dkms synaptics driver posted in that bug forum. But now the horizontal scroll using two fingers does not work at all. I have it checked under mouse settings AND in gpointing devices. Is this a known bug?
Apparently I can't delete this. It has been solved. Smooth scrolling in Chrome kills horizontal scrolling
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May 3, 2011
I have followed literally half a dozen How-to's, and none work. The touch screen works like a mouse (I can "click" on things), but no two-finger functionality
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Jul 28, 2010
How do I get the contents of .plan and .project files to show up using the finger command for regular users? As it stands with the setup I have in Fedora 12, only the user in question and the superuser can see them when they finger the user. Everyone else gets "no plan". I've tried chmod .plan o+rwx and chmod .plan a+rwx to no effect.ur.
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Nov 9, 2010
The program should work like finger command in an normal ubuntu OS.(which prints the user information)
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Jan 22, 2010
debian unstable system i have a problem with thinkfinger. By default i should only swipe my finger and i don`t have to press enter after that. The problem is that now i have to press enter. For example in GDM if i enter my username i should swipe my finger and it should let me log in. Now after i swipe my finger nothing happenes unless i press enter.The problem may be related to the update of xorg. The same problem has been reported here: Is there anyone here who uses thinkfinger who could possibly have an idea why is this happening?I am using thinkfinger 3.0 on debian unstable with kernel 2.6.32-amd64, xorg 1.7.4, SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader and GNOME. Other than the having to press enter i have no problems with thinkfinger. I am have patched thnikfinger with two patches:This patch solves the problem with thinkfinger taking too long to intialize:
Index: libthinkfinger/libthinkfinger.c
===================================================================
--- libthinkfinger/libthinkfinger.c(revision 118)
[code]...
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Aug 9, 2010
when I put more than one finger on my touchpad, the mouse starts going all over the screen. There is a video on what it does: [URL] I have Gateway NV53 with 32 bit OS Wubi install 4GB Ram AMD Athlon II X2 M300 CPU (dual core) Multi-Touch Touchpad
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Nov 25, 2010
I read that synaptic touchpads should support multitouch and as I have one of those I tried to enable it. However I wasn't successful.
After some digging in config files (I had to enable SHMConfig) I ended up with KDE configuration tool which is really cool but all multitouch options are there disabled. And also there is an information which says that only one finger is detected by this touchpad.
Is something wrong or my touchpad just doesn't support multitouch? I got this laptop 1.5 years ago so it's not very old.
And by the way, I have this in my Xorg.0.log
Code:
[ 28.821] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[ 28.821] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse2)
[ 28.821] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[Code]....
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Aug 13, 2011
My notebook (Lenovo thinkpad sl400c) comes with a finger print sensor. how to install fingerprint driver for opensuse 11.4 (gnome/kde)i opened up yast and when i clicked the fingerprint sensor option, it says that this machine has no finger print sensor.
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Oct 3, 2009
Consider the two runs of finger command for two different users:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# finger root
Login: root Name: root
[code]...
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Mar 7, 2011
i have a minor problem with the wacom tablet CTH-461. the gestures and mouse sensitivity with the finger touch is too sensitive... i mean that the mouse is moving really fast and you have to be very careful when you are pinching / zooming with your fingers... and second question. where i have to submit this "bug" bcs the 11.04 is still alpha and i want the tablet to be in final release as much as possible supported.
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May 17, 2011
I've just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a Samsung N150 Plus for a relative who I've been trying to get to use Ubuntu for ages and want to get it as perfect as possible.I have everything working well except two finger scrolling on the touchpad it's quite buggy and skips about as I scroll with it.how to make the two finger scrolling work correctly?
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May 28, 2011
I have recently installed Linux mint on my 2007 mac book pro and i found that my touch pad/track pad is not as sensitive as it was running the mac os. i can no longer move my cursor with the tip of my finger.
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Oct 9, 2009
Just curious why it is that the "office phone" column of finger does not seem to report anything even when data is entered in the GECOS field of /etc/passwd. I am using Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11, finger version 'bsd-finger-0.17' compiled from source (available at http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/.../b/bsd-finger/). To the best of my knowledge, this is also the version of finger that ships with Ubuntu 8.10.User jpublic's entry from /etc/passwd: Code:jpublic:x:1000:1000:John,101,9999,555-1234:/home/jpublic:/bin/bashResult of "finger" with no arguments:
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Nov 14, 2010
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