On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > > The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the > center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by > simultaneously depressing both buttons. (Some track balls only have > two buttons plus a scroll wheel -- depressing the wheel is the center > "button".) > > What happens with a laptop that has only a touchpad but no buttons? > "Tapping" on the touchpad performs the MS Win 10 "button" functions, > but what about Linux use? Can one configure the touchpad so that a > specific set of regions work only for "tapping" and thus emulate a > button, and the rest works as a regular "glide" pointing device?
"synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2" sets up right-click for a two-finger-tap and middle-click for a three-finger-tap.
