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alex.forencich

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Registered: 2011-05-29

Posts: 96

Three finger middle click drag

How do you do a middle click drag on a touchpad that doesn't have buttons?

I have a Dell XPS 15 touch, and the trackpad doesn't have separate buttons, so the only way to get a middle click is with three fingers on the pad.  It doesn't support the simultaneous left and right click emulation for middle clicking that my old laptop supports, probbly because the whole touchpad is one big button.  No problems here, however, when I middle-click with three fingers, I can't move the cursor around, so I can't use the middle click drag navigation mode that several programs use.  Is there any way to enable this, or is this a bug in the synaptics driver?  Or should I be using an alternative driver?

fungle

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Registered: 2014-05-01

Posts: 81

Re: Three finger middle click drag

You may need to configure the synaptic driver to recognize that. I would check the arch wiki, specifically here may be a good place to start.