I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13) to Fedora 26. Unfortunately, I lost the three-finger click on the touchpad to get an emulated middle button in the process. I use XFCE. I cannot find any relevant configuration in the Mouse and Touchpad settings, nor with xinput, or the settings editor.
My questions: is this a bug, and if so, in what component?
I'm happy to file a bug report, but it helps to know the answers to the above.
On 07/11/2017 07:05 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13) to Fedora 26. Unfortunately, I lost the three-finger click on the touchpad to get an emulated middle button in the process. I use XFCE. I cannot find any relevant configuration in the Mouse and Touchpad settings, nor with xinput, or the settings editor.
My questions: is this a bug, and if so, in what component?
I'm happy to file a bug report, but it helps to know the answers to the above.
Replying to my own message.
I found in the release notes a mention of the replacement of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics by xorg-x11-drv-libinput and that I could install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy to get the old Synaptics driver back. I tried that, and the result is that the three button click works again.
I filed a bug on xorg-x11-drv-libinput.
On 07/11/2017 10:24 AM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
On 07/11/2017 07:05 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13) to Fedora 26. Unfortunately, I lost the three-finger click on the touchpad to get an emulated middle button in the process. I use XFCE. I cannot find any relevant configuration in the Mouse and Touchpad settings, nor with xinput, or the settings editor.
I found in the release notes a mention of the replacement of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics by xorg-x11-drv-libinput and that I could install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy to get the old Synaptics driver back. I tried that, and the result is that the three button click works again.
I filed a bug on xorg-x11-drv-libinput.
I would suggest testing with Gnome first, even a live DVD would do it. XFCE might not have (full) libinput support yet. Is there an option in the XFCE touchpad configuration to toggle tap-to-click?
On 07/13/2017 04:43 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 07/11/2017 10:24 AM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
On 07/11/2017 07:05 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
I upgraded my laptop (Dell XPS 13) to Fedora 26. Unfortunately, I lost the three-finger click on the touchpad to get an emulated middle button in the process. I use XFCE. I cannot find any relevant configuration in the Mouse and Touchpad settings, nor with xinput, or the settings editor.
I found in the release notes a mention of the replacement of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics by xorg-x11-drv-libinput and that I could install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy to get the old Synaptics driver back. I tried that, and the result is that the three button click works again.
I filed a bug on xorg-x11-drv-libinput.
I would suggest testing with Gnome first, even a live DVD would do it. XFCE might not have (full) libinput support yet. Is there an option in the XFCE touchpad configuration to toggle tap-to-click?
I filed a bug and got a quick response. The solution to the problem is in the bug report [1]. It's a matter of setting an option so that libinput obeys the hardware "buttons" on the touchpad instead of using soft buttons.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469713#c5
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