In Ubuntu 12.04 my Asus N56DP mapped both the right and left mouse buttons to be select, or left mouse button. To get a right click or context menu, I would use a two finger click. I quickly got used to this.
That all changed with 12.10 and later. I am now on Ubuntu 13.10. Now lmb is select and rmb is context menu.
Note this is one of those clickpad trackpads with two buttons underneath it. But physically the buttons are not separate, they are hidden under the trackpad. I now hate the right / left mouse button behavior. With no physical context clues you never know which button you're actually clicking anymore.
I'd like the old 12.04 functionality of treating this like a single button trackpad back, but can't figure out how to do it. All the research I've done so far shows how to re-order the buttons on a device but not how to reassign them in such a way that rmb and lmb are the same.
recap: I want lmb and rmb to initiate select. I want two finger click to initiate context menu.
xinput --list
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
xinput --list-props "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
Device 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad':
Device Enabled (144): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (146): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (267): 1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (268): 2.500000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (269): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (270): 12.500000
Synaptics Edges (271): 136, 3284, 110, 1942
Synaptics Finger (272): 1, 1, 0
Synaptics Tap Time (273): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (274): 175
Synaptics Tap Durations (275): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics ClickPad (276): 1
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (277): 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (278): 282
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (279): 7
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (280): 79, 79
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (281): 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (282): 1, 1
Synaptics Move Speed (283): 1.000000, 1.750000, 0.050150, 0.000000
Synaptics Off (284): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags (285): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (286): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (287): 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0
Synaptics Click Action (288): 1, 3, 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (289): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance (290): 0.100000
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (291): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (292): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (293): 10, 200
Synaptics Coasting Speed (294): 20.000000, 50.000000
Synaptics Pressure Motion (295): 30, 160
Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor (296): 1.000000, 1.000000
Synaptics Resolution Detect (297): 1
Synaptics Grab Event Device (298): 1
Synaptics Gestures (299): 1
Synaptics Capabilities (300): 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Pad Resolution (301): 31, 31
Synaptics Area (302): 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Soft Button Areas (303): 1710, 0, 1682, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Noise Cancellation (304): 19, 19
Device Product ID (260): 2, 14
Device Node (261): "/dev/input/event7"
synclient -l
Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 136
RightEdge = 3284
TopEdge = 110
BottomEdge = 1942
FingerLow = 1
FingerHigh = 1
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 175
MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
EmulateMidButtonTime = 0
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 282
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 79
HorizScrollDelta = 79
VertEdgeScroll = 0
HorizEdgeScroll = 0
CornerCoasting = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 1
MinSpeed = 1
MaxSpeed = 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.0501505
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 2
RBCornerButton = 3
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 3
TapButton3 = 0
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 3
ClickFinger3 = 0
CircularScrolling = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 200
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
PressureMotionMinZ = 30
PressureMotionMaxZ = 160
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
ResolutionDetect = 1
GrabEventDevice = 1
TapAndDragGesture = 1
AreaLeftEdge = 0
AreaRightEdge = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge = 0
HorizHysteresis = 19
VertHysteresis = 19
ClickPad = 1
RightButtonAreaLeft = 1710
RightButtonAreaRight = 0
RightButtonAreaTop = 1682
RightButtonAreaBottom = 0
MiddleButtonAreaLeft = 0
MiddleButtonAreaRight = 0
MiddleButtonAreaTop = 0
MiddleButtonAreaBottom = 0
Best Answer
In terminal:
Will output something like this:
Using the the device name you want to change ( e.g. I will change my touchpad's buttons, so I will use
"SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
) do this:E.g for me:
(Watch out for the case in the device name, because it is important.) After this both of your left and right clicks are treated as a left click and your middle click is treated as a right click. This is only temporarily, after a reboot the changes are lost. To make it permanent just make the
/etc/lightdm/touchpad_setup
file with the following contents:and make it executable:
sudo chmod +x /etc/lightdm/touchpad_setup
. After that edit the/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
file and add the following line to it under the [SeatDefaults] section:(If you already had a session-setup-script in your
lightdm.conf
file then you will have to add thexinput set-button-map "YOUR_DEVICE" 1 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 9
line to the file pointed in those lines inlightdm.conf
.)Update 1:
Also you may want to take a look at the options of the synaptics driver. Based on what you wrote in the comments I think by modifying the
or more likely the
option will solve your problem. Check your current settings with
xinput --list-props "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
or withsynclient -l
. Then modify your settings with eitherxinput
orsynclient
, which you like more.Update 2:
So you figured it out and you only had to disable the soft button area for the right button by setting every RightButtonArea* parameter to 0, with
synclient RightButtonAreaLeft=0
,synclient RightButtonAreaTop=0
. (As the other were already on 0.) The same command withxinput
would bexinput --set-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Synaptics Soft Button Areas" 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
.