Ubuntu – Grab Handles by Three-Finger Tap not working after upgrade to 12.04

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I recently upgrade my Ubuntu installation from 11.10 to 12.04.

Before the upgrade I was able to use three-finger tapping to bring up the grab-handles. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, that functionality is broken, since I cannot use the three-finger tap anymore.

Because the touchpad settings in ubuntu are somewhat limited, I don't really know what to do right now.

I hope someone can help me with that. I'll be glad to provide more info if needed.

Edit: The issue is not the gesture, but the binding of grab handles.

In CCSM, I cannot assign the middle-click to the grab-handle toggle.

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This is not a real answer but a workaround. Here is what i did:

reenable middle-click with synaptiks from software center
assign a keyboard-shortcut to grab handles with ccsm

Kind of disappointing though, since it worked out of the box on 11.10

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I'm not able to answer all of your questions, but I can answer #3. If you're using a touchpad on your laptop, you can click on the Power button (upper right-hand corner), and choose "System Settings". Then, click on the Mouse and Touchpad option. In there, click the tab for touchpad, and uncheck the "Enable mouse clicks" option. You can also set the scrolling to Disabled, or Edge Scrolling.

As for the other two questions, you can always try updating to see if that fixes the issues. If you open Software Center, you can search for Synaptiks touchpad management, or touchpad. Install the appropriate application (synaptiks is for KDE, but it should work in Unity as well), and configure the touchpad.

Hope this helps you, and have a great weekend:) Patrick.

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This seems to work (for part 1) even when you hibernate or sleep.

echo synclient TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3 >> ~/touchpad_settings.sh
chmod +x ~/touchpad_settings.sh
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.input-devices hotplug-command "/home/YOUR USER NAME/touchpad_settings.sh"

Make sure to replace YOUR USER NAME with your actual user name. This was pulled from http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/11/06/persistent-touchpad-configuration-in-ubuntu-11-10/

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