There are two physical buttons on the touchpad - when the mouse settings is changed to left handed those two buttons are expected to swap functionality, the button that left-clicked should right-click and the button that right-clicked should left click.
There's also a third "button" - the surface of the trackpad. In addition to being able to move your finger along the trackpad to move the mouse you can also "tap" your finger (place your finger down and remove it quickly) on the trackpad to initiate a left-click. Changing the mouse settings to left handed makes tapping right-click. Tapping is pretty useless if it activates a right-click instead of a left-click, I'll hazard a guess and say that 80% of the time you want to left-click instead of right click, so 80% of the time tapping can't be used. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824436 Title: [Xubuntu] Changing synaptics touchpad to left handed makes tapping right-click To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/+bug/824436/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
