Touchpad right/middle click?

[Christopher]

I noticed today that F28 Gnome 3 doesn't seem to support right or middle
click on my multi-touch area touchpad (standard Dell touchpad) on Wayland
or Xorg.

I've read that this is related to libinput, but for all the discussions
I've found on various forums, I've yet to find a solution. Usually I use a
mouse, so I haven't noticed before, but this is hugely inconvenient not to
have right or middle click. When did this break in Fedora? I know it used
to work fine.

Had anybody found a reliable solution to restore full touchpad
functionality?

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 24 lug 2018 alle 12:26, Christopher 
<ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; ha scritto:
>  I noticed today that F28 Gnome 3 doesn't seem to support right or
>
>  middle click on my multi-touch area touchpad (standard Dell touchpad) 
>  on Wayland or Xorg.
>  
>  I've read that this is related to libinput, but for all the 
>  discussions I've found on various forums, I've yet to find a 
>  solution. Usually I use a mouse, so I haven't noticed before, but 
>  this is hugely inconvenient not to have right or middle click. When 
>  did this break in Fedora? I know it used to work fine.
>  
>  Had anybody found a reliable solution to restore full touchpad 
>  functionality? 
I use regularly the touchpad right-click on my Dell XPS 13. (I don't 
think middle click is available on my touchpad)

Fedora 28 Gnome 3 on Wayland.

[Christopher]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:37 PM Federico Bruni <fede(a)inventati.org&gt; wrote:

>  Il giorno mar 24 lug 2018 alle 12:26, Christopher
>  <ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; ha scritto:
>  > I noticed today that F28 Gnome 3 doesn't seem to support right or
>  > middle click on my multi-touch area touchpad (standard Dell touchpad)
>  > on Wayland or Xorg.
>  >
>  > I've read that this is related to libinput, but for all the
>  > discussions I've found on various forums, I've yet to find a
>  > solution. Usually I use a mouse, so I haven't noticed before, but
>  > this is hugely inconvenient not to have right or middle click. When
>  > did this break in Fedora? I know it used to work fine.
>  >
>  > Had anybody found a reliable solution to restore full touchpad
>  > functionality?
>
>  I use regularly the touchpad right-click on my Dell XPS 13. (I don't
>  think middle click is available on my touchpad)
>
>  Fedora 28 Gnome 3 on Wayland.
>
>  
Interesting. I don't have an XPS 13. I have an Inspiron 7352 14". My
touchpad and touchscreen are:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04f3 Product=21d0 Version=0110
N: Name="ELAN Touchscreen"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:14.0-7/input0
S:
Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-7/2-7:1.0/0003:04F3:21D0.0003/input/input16
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event8
B: PROP=2
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=400 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=3273800000000003
B: MSC=20

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse3 event9
B: PROP=1
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

However, I also see this other touchscreen in /proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0018 Vendor=06cb Product=75db Version=0100
N: Name="DLL06B5:00 06CB:75DB Touchpad"
P: Phys=i2c-DLL06B5:00
S:
Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/INT3433:00/i2c-0/i2c-DLL06B5:00/0018:06CB:75DB.0002/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event5
B: PROP=5
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=6420 10000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=260800000000003
B: MSC=20

I'm not sure what's going on, because that looks like the touchscreen, but
it's listed as a touchpad. Either way, it's not like I have right click or
middle click on the touchscreen, either.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/24/2018 03:26 AM, Christopher wrote:
>  I noticed today that F28 Gnome 3 doesn't seem to support right or
> middle 
>  click on my multi-touch area touchpad (standard Dell touchpad) on 
>  Wayland or Xorg.
>  
>  I've read that this is related to libinput, but for all the discussions 
>  I've found on various forums, I've yet to find a solution. Usually I use 
>  a mouse, so I haven't noticed before, but this is hugely inconvenient 
>  not to have right or middle click. When did this break in Fedora? I know 
>  it used to work fine. 
If you go into the Gnome mouse configuration, do you have tap-to-click 
turned on for the touchpad?  For right-click, are you trying to click on 
a certain spot or are you using two fingers?  The multi-finger right and 
middle click work for me on the laptops I use.  If you have it turned on 
and it still doesn't work, then file a bug on libinput and see what they 
suggest.

[Christopher]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:26 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 07/24/2018 03:26 AM, Christopher wrote:
>  > I noticed today that F28 Gnome 3 doesn't seem to support right or middle
>  > click on my multi-touch area touchpad (standard Dell touchpad) on
>  > Wayland or Xorg.
>  >
>  > I've read that this is related to libinput, but for all the discussions
>  > I've found on various forums, I've yet to find a solution. Usually I use
>  > a mouse, so I haven't noticed before, but this is hugely inconvenient
>  > not to have right or middle click. When did this break in Fedora? I know
>  > it used to work fine.
>
>  If you go into the Gnome mouse configuration, do you have tap-to-click
>  turned on for the touchpad?  For right-click, are you trying to click on
>  a certain spot or are you using two fingers?  The multi-finger right and
>  middle click work for me on the laptops I use.  If you have it turned on
>  and it still doesn't work, then file a bug on libinput and see what they
>  suggest.
>  
The 2-finger tap for right-click seems to work if I turn that on, and for
fun I checked 3-finger tap also... which apparently performs middle
click. Also, on a whim, I ended up changing the "click-method" from the
default of "fingers" to "areas" (the opposite of many blog posts I
read
said to do), which works with the regular button press using:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'areas'

Apparently, there's no UI for that setting... you just have to know to set
it. *shrug*

Thanks!

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 24 lug 2018 alle 21:55, Christopher 
<ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; ha scritto:
>  On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:26 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt;
> wrote:
> > 
> > If you go into the Gnome mouse configuration, do you have 
> > tap-to-click
> > turned on for the touchpad?  For right-click, are you trying to 
> > click on
> > a certain spot or are you using two fingers?  The multi-finger right 
> > and
> > middle click work for me on the laptops I use.  If you have it 
> > turned on
> > and it still doesn't work, then file a bug on libinput and see what 
> > they
> > suggest.
>  
>  The 2-finger tap for right-click seems to work if I turn that on, and 
>  for fun I checked 3-finger tap also... which apparently performs 
>  middle click.
>   
I can't make the 3-finger tap work on my laptop.
When I play with it in GNOME touchpad test settings, I see always first 
a very quick "secondary clic", followed immediately by "central
clic".
In Nautilus and Firefox, it's always interpreted as a 2-finger tap.

Perhaps it's a Wayland bug. I should check if it works in Xorg.


>  Also, on a whim, I ended up changing the "click-method"
> from the  
default of "fingers" to "areas" (the opposite of many
blog posts I read 
said to do), which works with the regular button press using:
>  
>  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 
>  'areas'
>  
>  Apparently, there's no UI for that setting... you just have to know 
>  to set it. *shrug*
>  
>   
There is actually, but in GNOME Tweak Tool.

[Christopher]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 6:33 AM Federico Bruni <fede(a)inventati.org&gt; wrote:

>  Il giorno mar 24 lug 2018 alle 21:55, Christopher
>  <ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; ha scritto:
>  > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:26 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  >>
>  >> If you go into the Gnome mouse configuration, do you have
>  >> tap-to-click
>  >> turned on for the touchpad?  For right-click, are you trying to
>  >> click on
>  >> a certain spot or are you using two fingers?  The multi-finger right
>  >> and
>  >> middle click work for me on the laptops I use.  If you have it
>  >> turned on
>  >> and it still doesn't work, then file a bug on libinput and see what
>  >> they
>  >> suggest.
>  >
>  > The 2-finger tap for right-click seems to work if I turn that on, and
>  > for fun I checked 3-finger tap also... which apparently performs
>  > middle click.
>  >
>
>  I can't make the 3-finger tap work on my laptop.
>  When I play with it in GNOME touchpad test settings, I see always first
>  a very quick "secondary clic", followed immediately by "central
> clic".
>  In Nautilus and Firefox, it's always interpreted as a 2-finger tap.
>
>  Perhaps it's a Wayland bug. I should check if it works in Xorg.
>
>
>   > Also, on a whim, I ended up changing the "click-method" from the
>  default of "fingers" to "areas" (the opposite of many blog posts I
> read
>  said to do), which works with the regular button press using:
>  >
>  > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method
>  > 'areas'
>  >
>  > Apparently, there's no UI for that setting... you just have to know
>  > to set it. *shrug*
>  >
>  >
>
>  There is actually, but in GNOME Tweak Tool.
>
>
>  
That's unexpected, but good to know! Thanks.

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 25 lug 2018 alle 6:44, Federico Bruni 
<fede(a)inventati.org&gt; ha scritto:
>  
>  I can't make the 3-finger tap work on my laptop.
>  When I play with it in GNOME touchpad test settings, I see always 
>  first a very quick "secondary clic", followed immediately by "central 
>  clic".
>  In Nautilus and Firefox, it's always interpreted as a 2-finger tap.
>  
>  Perhaps it's a Wayland bug. I should check if it works in Xorg.
>   
I forgot that I was using Xorg.
I switched to Wayland and everything works perfect: one-finger tap for 
the primary button, two-finger tap for the secondary button and 
three-finger tap for the middle clic.

[Ian Pilcher]

On 07/24/2018 05:26 AM, Christopher wrote:
>  Had anybody found a reliable solution to restore full touchpad 
>  functionality? 
dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-libinput
dnf install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy

(Yet another "enhancement")

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