Ubuntu – How to restore two finger middle click again

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it used to be that tapping two fingers on the touchpad send a middle mouse click. Now it does a right click and three fingers now are the middle click. I really can't understand the change and think it is a bug or badly copied from Apple or something. The reasoning escapes me totally.
I use middle click to open links in a new tab in the browser all day and I rarely use right click (and I have a right mouse button below the touchpad, doh)
Tapping three fingers on my tiny EeePC touchpad is next to impossible so I want the old behavior.
I found:

synclient TapButtons2=2
synclient TapButtons3=3

but that did not work on 10.10

Does anyone know how to restore sane behavior?

Best Answer

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)
  • Right Click (tap at bottom right of scroll area)
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