


MiddleButtonAreaTop=1916 and MiddleButtonAreaLeft=1617 set the "right button" to cause middle click.ĬlickFinger1=0 Disables the special interpretation of the click which happen when one finger touches the surface at the moment of the click. Not being able to maintain right click is not bothering enough to push me to find a solution. I use two-finger tap to produce right click. RightButtonAreaTop=0 and RightButtonAreaLeft=0 unset the "right button" causing right click (I failed to use ivan-volosyuk's settings to have all three buttons set. Here is the command I ran and set in the Startup Applications Preferences window to configure my touchpad: $ synclient RightButtonAreaTop=0 RightButtonAreaLeft=0 MiddleButtonAreaTop=1916 MiddleButtonAreaLeft=1617 ClickFinger1=0 ClickFinger1, ClickFinger2 and ClickFinger3 options remap clicks when they are done with respectively one, two or three fingers left touching the touchpad.syntax to modify those values to suit your needs. Then use synclient var1=value1 var2=value2. Use the following command to learn about your touchpad size values and configuration: $ synclient -l | grep 'Area\|Edge\|ClickFinger' I used to have a laptop with touchpad buttons, and to click both of them simultaneously to cause middle click emulation. Now that was fun and user-friendly, wasn't it? I can only wonder why unity silently meddles with synclient settings and wonder even more why there isn't a simple GUI tool to configure all of this. If you did all this correctly, your system should retain three finger clicking as middle click after a suspend/resume cycle. Make it executable simply type sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/80-synaptics-three-finger in the terminal window. if you don't remember it, you can always type whoami in a terminal window and it'll tell you.

Replace YOUR_USER_NAME with your login name - not the long one e.g. bin/su YOUR_USER_NAME -c "/usr/bin/synclient TapButton3=2"
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However, unity-2d (and I suppose also Unity) likes to fiddle with these settings on resume, and I have no idea how to disable that. It's explained for Xfce in this Xfce forum thread You can enable it with the command synclient TapButton3=2 in the terminal, but that seems to get overridden on suspend+resume and after a reboot.
