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I've upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 but the ability to tap with three fingers on the touchpad to achieve a middle mouse click has disappeared. When a mouse is plugged in the middle button click works exactly as expected.

I've tried similar approaches to: Swapping the double and triple finger tap actions on trackpad and using $ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true but still nothing works.

I'm using an asus ul-30a which is typically well supported under linux. I'm using gnome-shell but the problem also occurs when using unity.

Could anyone advise how to fix the triple tap please?

EDIT: I've also tried installing the kde package synaptiks and setting the button functions and this also has no effect

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  • See bug: bugs.launchpad.net/utouch/+bug/754000
    – AlikElzin-kilaka
    Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 7:52
  • Also see bug 840509
    – Richard Hansen
    Commented Apr 28, 2012 at 4:54
  • I managed to make the config persistent by placing the proper configuration in a file called 70-synaptics.conf and placing it in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory. And, yes my laptop has a Synaptics touchpad. I have linked the conf file that I use for reference. This works fine for me on a laptop running lubuntu 18.04.
    – kaartic
    Commented Aug 8, 2019 at 16:54

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Reset to default
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Using gnome-shell on 12.04 (precise), I'm able to restore triple tap middle click support by running the following:

synclient TapButton3=2

This command tells the Synaptic driver to make a triple tap gesture (TapButton3) send a middle click (mouse button 2) event.

However, I'm not sure how to best make this change persistent. I could put it in a script as suggested by this blog post, but that approach seems awkward to me. There's got to be a better way.

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Just found an amazing thing:

Taping on the top right corner of the touchpad is like clicking the middle mouse button. I know it's not the same as the triple click and position accuracy is needed :( but it's the closest I could find to triple click.

BTW, clicking on the lower right corner is like clicking the the right mouse button.

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This shows how to restore middle mouse button emulation by simultaneously clicking with both buttons.

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  • I can already do this without any changes and that only works in 11.04 not 11.10.
    – chemicaloliver
    Commented Oct 4, 2011 at 6:20
  • oh. no other ideas :(
    – aaazalea
    Commented Oct 7, 2011 at 1:54
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synclient ClickFinger3=3

Found it here.

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