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Need help in getting the right mouse click to work on a HP mini 210-1015TU when using the touchpad.

If I plug in a USB mouse, both left click and right click function as normal. Using the touchpad however I can only get the left click to work. Attempting to right click gives the result expected from a left click. As per some comments on a forum I added a file 11-touchpad.conf to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. I can provide further details if required.

This made touchpad operation noticeably smoother but the problem with the right mouse click remains. Not a hardware problem as right clicked worked with 10.04 and still works with Windows 7 starter. 10.10 installed using wubi.

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It would help if you would describe a little more what works and what doesn't work. – txwikinger Oct 15 '10 at 3:51
If I plug in a USB mouse, both left click and right click function as normal. Using the touchpad however I can only get the left click to work. Attempting to right click gives the result expected from a left click. As per some comments on a forum I added a file 11-touchpad.conf to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. I can provide further details if required. This made touchpad operation noticeably smoother but the problem with the right mouse click remains – user4041 Oct 15 '10 at 5:12
Has the right button always worked until now? If you have never seen it work, maybe the button is physically broken. – dgmdan Oct 16 '10 at 19:57
Yes, right mouse button worked on 10.04 and still works on Windows 7 starter (I installed 10.10 using Wubi) – user4041 Oct 17 '10 at 9:45
possible duplicate of Touchpad not working on HP Pavilion dv6 – Lekensteyn Apr 9 '11 at 16:25
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You may also be interested in installing gpointing-device-settings Install gpointing-device-settings package, which will provide more configuration options for your touchpad.

Once installed you find it under System -> Preferences -> Pointing Devices.

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Thanks. Will give it a try. – user4041 Nov 17 '10 at 13:36
This worked a treat for me too - many thanks! (On a HP Mini 210-2001sa - fresh install of Netbook 10.10) – user9406 Jan 23 '11 at 0:07
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try TAPPING the lower right corner of the touchpad instead of clicking the button

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Occasionally this does work, but in most cases it responds as a left click. Thanks for the suggestion – user4041 Oct 19 '10 at 20:47
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is that i'm going to input:

sudo su (Enter your password)

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

p/s: since i'm a newbie, i need to confirm the command to solve my problem at hp mini 210-1073TU.

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That worked for me. – user4041 Dec 5 '10 at 4:18
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@user4041 If this worked for you then accept it as the answer! – Jorge Castro Jan 22 '11 at 18:52
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The solution you provided indeed fixed the right click issue, but gave me a couple extra problems: 1)The scrolling vanished and 2)the sensibility was significantly reduced (the speed of the pointer) so that now it takes at least 4 swipes to get from one side of the screen to the other. Any tips on how to undo/fix this? thanks!

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Not sure I can help but perhaps you could try the gpointing-device-setting package mentioned above. – user4041 Jan 3 '11 at 4:42
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