Public bug reported:

I'm trying to switch from the "fingers" click-method to the "areas"
click-method, because tapping with three fingers is awkward and I find
that my three-fingers taps are rarely registered as such.

* "fingers": single-finger tap for a click, two-finger tap for a right
  click, three-finger tap for a middle click
* "areas": tap in the lower right corner for a right click, tap in the
  upper right corner for a middle click

After running the following command:

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method \ 
  "'areas'"

I can verify with gsettings get... that the click-method is now "areas",
however tapping in the lower/upper right corners of the touchpad does
not elicit the expected right/middle clicks, whereas tapping with two
fingers elicits a right click. This remains the case even after
rebooting the computer. It's as if the click-method was ignored and
defaulted to "fingers".

I couldn't find any similar bug reports and don't know how to
investigate this problem further. I assume this problem is specific to
my hardware, otherwise it would have been noticed already. I attach the
output of the following commands:

  cat /proc/bus/input/devices
  xinput --list
  xinput --list-props 13  # where 13 is the touchpad's ID

Should I report this issue to upstream libinput
(www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput)? Or could this be something
to do with GNOME instead?

Using Ubuntu 20.04 with libinput 1.15.5-1 and xserver-xorg-input-
libinput 0.29.0-1.

** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-libinput (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "cat /proc/bus/input/devices"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1877798/+attachment/5369253/+files/devices.txt

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Title:
  The "areas" click-method doesn't work with "SynPS/2 Synaptics
  TouchPad" on "Clevo N141ZU" laptop

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