Recently I installed Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon.
Touchpad multi finger behavior is strange and annoying. When I tap with two fingers exactly at the same time, it performs right click and if one of my fingers touch a little later than the other one, it performs middle click. Three finger tap doesn't work. Changing Click Actions in Mouse and Touchpad seems to have no effect. Currently I disabled Tap to click to prevent accidentally paste, closing tabs, opening links, etc. while performing Two-finger scrolling or tapping.
Here is output for $ xinput --list-props X
command:
$ xinput --list-props 13
Device 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad':
Device Enabled (166): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (168): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
libinput Tapping Enabled (301): 1
libinput Tapping Enabled Default (302): 0
libinput Tapping Drag Enabled (303): 1
libinput Tapping Drag Enabled Default (304): 1
libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled (305): 0
libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled Default (306): 0
libinput Tapping Button Mapping Enabled (307): 1, 0
libinput Tapping Button Mapping Default (308): 1, 0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (309): 1
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (310): 0
libinput Disable While Typing Enabled (311): 0
libinput Disable While Typing Enabled Default (312): 1
libinput Scroll Methods Available (313): 1, 1, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (314): 1, 0, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (315): 1, 0, 0
libinput Accel Speed (316): 0.000000
libinput Accel Speed Default (317): 0.000000
libinput Left Handed Enabled (318): 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (319): 0
libinput Send Events Modes Available (286): 1, 1
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (287): 0, 1
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (288): 0, 0
Device Node (289): "/dev/input/event5"
Device Product ID (290): 2, 14
libinput Drag Lock Buttons (320): <no items>
libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (321): 1
I tried to edit libinput Tapping Button Mapping Enabled (307) by $ xinput --set-prop 13 307 X Y
. Changing it to 0 1 didn't have any effect. Other values return error.
In Windows touchpad behaves OK for two and three finger actions. I think Ubuntu and previous versions of Linux Mint were OK too. External mouse works well.
How should I set three fingers for middle click and two fingers just for right click? (or at least disable middle click for two fingers)
Best Answer
I totally disabled middle click:
You can also swap right and middle click gestures: