Ubuntu – How to get the right- and middle-click back

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I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04.1 on my Macbook 7,1 and the first thing I noticed was that I couldn't right-click by clicking on the clickpad with two fingers, or middle-click by clicking with three, as I had been. According to everywhere, there's now "better clickpad support" but the only thing I see is that things have stopped working. How can I get things back to the way they were? Note that I do not want to right-click by clicking on the bottom-right area of the clickpad.

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I solved this problem by using synclient.

synclient ClickPad=0 # Even though I'm using a clickpad, this
                     # setting inhibits multi-finger click.
synclient ClickFinger3=2 # Add the 3-finger click in order to
                         # middle click.

Everything now works as it should.

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The default settings that seem to be enabled with "tap to click" (on my laptop anyway) also provides the following functionality:

Middle Click (tap at top right of scroll area)
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To fix the middle click you can use the following command:

xinput set-int-prop NN 266 8 2 3 0 0 1 2 3

Where NN is the id of the mousepad device, you can see it with the command xinput list. 266 is the id of the property "Synaptics Tap Action" you can see it with xinput list-props NN

You have to run this command every time you boot/login/wake.

To make it permanent you can put this command to the end of your .profile file in your home folder. (You can also try to put it in /etc/init.d/rc.local, but in my case it didn't work.)

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