Ubuntu – Three finger drag with trackpad

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OS X has a feature where you can use three fingers to do the equivalent of click-and-drag, sparing you the annoying tap-then-tap-again-and-move-quickly dance normally required.

Is there a way to enable this on Ubuntu for, say, moving tabs around in Chrome?

Note: I'm aware that Unity has re-purposed three finger gestures. I'm not using Unity, and very much want generic click-and-drag via three finger touch.

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Since you don't have unity you should be able to just install touchegg from the Ubuntu Software Center and then for a nice gui you can download and install the touchegg gui from here: https://github.com/Raffarti/Touchegg-gce

Touchegg is awesome by the way! I programmed 3,4 and 5 finger gestures to do anything i wanted. You can program clicks as well as different swipes as well. it's pretty awesome.

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Ubuntu – Middle mouse click emulation on trackpad, how can I set it

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. Example:

xinput set-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 8, 9, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3

You have to run that command after each resume. To preserve your synaptics configuration after resume, you can follow this steps (from wiki.archlinux.org):

Gnome settings daemon may override existing settings (for example ones set in xorg.conf.d) for which there is no equivalent in any of the graphical configuration utilities. It is possible to stop gnome from touching mouse settings at all:
1. Run dconf-editor
2. Edit /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
3. Uncheck the active setting 

It will now respect your system's existing synaptics configuration.

It worked for me on Ubuntu 11.10 AND now I have:

Two-finger scrolling.
Middle Click with two fingers tap.
Right Click (tap at bottom right of scroll area).

Ubuntu – Using three finger swipe

Here's some solution, it works for me (Ubuntu 12.04) with 4 finger drag but you can customize it. Although there are some bugs with the 3 finger drag because ubuntu has some default gestures written in the source code.

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