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I have a new Lenovo T440p (which has an apple-like clickpad) and in windows, the touchpad behaves as I want it to, the entire surface behaves the same when clicked, and to right click, I click with two fingers. On linux, however, when I click on the bottom right portion of the touchpad, it registers as a right click, which I do not like. I have looked in the synaptics configuration GUI but couldn't find an option to change this behaviour. Am I missing something or is there some other way to achieve the desired behaviour?

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I first met with success when I tried disabling the soft button for right click by moving it out of the bounds of the trackpad. This worked, but since my laptop also has a trackpoint with buttons integrated into the clickpad, I instead moved the soft button to the right click area of the track point.

I couldn't get these changes to persist with the xorg.conf file (which I think I should be able to, I'm just incompetent), but I got it to work as a lightdm startup script.

I made a script which executed

synclient RightButtonAreaBottom=2500 RightButtonAreaTop=0

and set that as a lightdm startup script and it all works nicely.

I'm still not perfectly happy, for example, when I click in certain positions, the cursor moves down about 5 pixels, which the windows drivers seem to be able to compensate for (also this was never a problem when running linux on my macbook pro, which also had a clickpad). I would also like to have three finger middle click, but it's not vital.

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