Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

hoeffl · 2011-09-26 14:21:10

Hi all,

I have a problem with my laptops touchpad. The right "mouse button" behaves like the left one, so it probably doesn't get detected. Does anybody have had / know of a similiar problem and has some sort of fix? I didn't find anything on the internet about this specific problem...
Thank you for your help (and patience)!

Greetings,
hoeffl

the sad clown · 2011-09-26 18:05:34

Post your synaptic.conf

Also, maybe try

synclient -m 100

This should monitor touchpad activity, maybe it will show you what is going on when you push the buttons.

hoeffl · 2011-09-26 20:22:23

Hi,

thank you for your quick reply!

My 10-synaptics.conf:

Section "InputClass"
  Identifier "touchpad catchall"
  Driver "synaptics"
  MatchIsTouchpad "on"
  MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
    Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
#    Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
    Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "0"
EndSection

And

 synclient -m 100

returns: "Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?"

the sad clown · 2011-09-26 22:16:32

Try adding this to your synaptic.conf and then use synclient again:

           Option "SHMConfig"  "true"

Also, try adding:

           Option "TapButton2"  "2"

This may fix it all by itself, so try it first.

hoeffl · 2011-09-27 09:33:28

Now synclient is working (I added both options to my synaptics.conf).
But when I press the right mouse button the same output is generated as when pressing the left one! So synaptics thinks I have two left mouse buttons oO
Under Windows 7 the whole touchpad is working (also the buttons), so I don't think it is a hardware issue....
Thanks for your help!

delerious010 · 2011-09-28 12:40:45

Hi hoeffl,

I really would recommend you read the synaptics man page, there's a few options so you can configure things to the way you want it. Or check out the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

The TapButton2 "2" option, if you support multi-touch, show allow for a middle click when you do a non-corner two button tap.

The question is which laptop do you have ? Do you have a synaptics touch pad with integrated mouse buttons, or are the buttons separate (ex.: Apple, HP Envy) ?

hoeffl · 2011-09-28 13:56:34

Hello everybody,

thanks a lot for your help (a special thanks also to _en, who gave me the final advice).
The problem is solved! The reason was that I have not a "normal" touchpad but a clickpad, where the mouse buttons are somehow integrated into the touchpad (as delerious010 said). Because of that you need another synaptics driver called xf86-input-synaptics-clickpad (from the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38120). Now the "usual" right-click is working And multi-touch gestures/clicks work a lot better with this package!
Thanks again,
hoeffl

Last edited by hoeffl (2011-09-28 14:10:25)

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#1 2011-09-26 14:21:10

Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

#2 2011-09-26 18:05:34

Re: Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

#3 2011-09-26 20:22:23

Re: Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

#4 2011-09-26 22:16:32

Re: Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

#5 2011-09-27 09:33:28

Re: Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

#6 2011-09-28 12:40:45

Re: Synaptics touchpad right-click issue

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