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stevebob

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] MacBook Pro Trackpad - No 2 or 3 finger clicking

Recently the trackpad on my macbook pro (13", 2009) started misbehaving: clicking with 2 or 3 fingers now has the same effect as clicking with 1 finger. I had configured it so that clicking with 1 finger is a normal click, 2 fingers was right-clicking and 3 fingers was middle clicking (mainly used for copying text) but now they all are just normal clicks. Multitouch still works on the trackpad, as I can scroll with 2 fingers, as well as configure the TapButtonX variables (for example to make a 2 finger tap a right click). I can set the values of ClickButtonX to anything (even 0) and it has no effect on what happens when I click with any number of fingers.

The start of the problem seemed to coincide with an update to xf86-input-mouse, but rolling that back to a previous version (as well as the other programs updated at the same time) didn't fix it. I'll try booting from a ubuntu live cd to see if its a hardware problem soon. Are any other macbook pro users or synaptic touchpad users having this problem?

Here is the output of synclient:

    LeftEdge                = -3642
    RightEdge               = 4348
    TopEdge                 = 500
    BottomEdge              = 6125
    FingerLow               = 25
    FingerHigh              = 30
    FingerPress             = 257
    MaxTapTime              = 180
    MaxTapMove              = 517
    MaxDoubleTapTime        = 180
    SingleTapTimeout        = 180
    ClickTime               = 100
    FastTaps                = 0
    EmulateMidButtonTime    = 75
    EmulateTwoFingerMinZ    = 283
    EmulateTwoFingerMinW    = 7
    VertScrollDelta         = 235
    HorizScrollDelta        = 235
    VertEdgeScroll          = 0
    HorizEdgeScroll         = 0
    CornerCoasting          = 0
    VertTwoFingerScroll     = 1
    HorizTwoFingerScroll    = 1
    MinSpeed                = 1
    MaxSpeed                = 1.75
    AccelFactor             = 0.0169909
    TrackstickSpeed         = 40
    EdgeMotionMinZ          = 30
    EdgeMotionMaxZ          = 160
    EdgeMotionMinSpeed      = 1
    EdgeMotionMaxSpeed      = 941
    EdgeMotionUseAlways     = 0
    TouchpadOff             = 0
    LockedDrags             = 0
    LockedDragTimeout       = 5000
    RTCornerButton          = 0
    RBCornerButton          = 0
    LTCornerButton          = 0
    LBCornerButton          = 0
    TapButton1              = 0
    TapButton2              = 3
    TapButton3              = 2
    ClickFinger1            = 1
    ClickFinger2            = 3
    ClickFinger3            = 2
    CircularScrolling       = 0
    CircScrollDelta         = 0.1
    CircScrollTrigger       = 0
    CircularPad             = 0
    PalmDetect              = 0
    PalmMinWidth            = 10
    PalmMinZ                = 200
    CoastingSpeed           = 20
    CoastingFriction        = 50
    PressureMotionMinZ      = 30
    PressureMotionMaxZ      = 160
    PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
    PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
    GrabEventDevice         = 1
    TapAndDragGesture       = 1
    AreaLeftEdge            = 0
    AreaRightEdge           = 0
    AreaTopEdge             = 0
    AreaBottomEdge          = 0
    HorizHysteresis         = 5
    VertHysteresis          = 3
    ClickPad                = 0

Last edited by stevebob (2012-03-18 20:04:32)

eXtractor

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Registered: 2012-03-16

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] MacBook Pro Trackpad - No 2 or 3 finger clicking

Same issue on HP ProBook 4520s (with Synaptics ClickPad touchpad). I think it's because of recent xf86-input-synaptics update. Everything was perfect with 1.5.0.

Last edited by eXtractor (2012-03-18 14:23:43)

stevebob

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] MacBook Pro Trackpad - No 2 or 3 finger clicking

Found a solution. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1072797  I switched to the mtrack driver and I can configure my trackpad to work "properly".

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: [SOLVED] MacBook Pro Trackpad - No 2 or 3 finger clicking

Please mark your thread [Solved] stevebob.

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