Synaptic touchpad right-click not working

Question

I'm having the same problem as in previous Ubuntu versions. The workaround to the problem for 11.10 was to use https://launchpad.net/~sergio91pt/+archive/synaptics+clickpads, but for 12.04 I haven't found a solution that works.

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HP 210-1095tu netbook Atom n450 RAM 2GB

Answer 1

I had that problem (touchpad right click not working) with ubuntu 12.04, and found this link very useful:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Buttonless_TouchPads_.28aka_ClickPads.29

In my case, all I had to do was to define the area of the right button, adding the line

Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"

to the configuration file as explained there.

Answer 2

This works, but not sure if side effects aren't even worse - the pointer has become WAY too slow and there doesn't work any scrolling (not even edge-scrolling)

Answer 3

sudo su
echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe
reboot

This does have some side effects: you may lose other touchpad features, like two-finger scrolling. In fact, this removes the touchpad tab from the mouse config settings window.