Can't right click while touching touchpad
I have a new laptop (Asus X55A). When I try to right click while touching the touchpad, it counts as a left click. It doesn't even matter if I'm moving the cursor, any contact on the touchpad results in any click--left or right--registering as a left click. Is there any way to fix this? I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64-bit. Thanks.
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
Just to clarify- are you pressing a physical button on the touchpad to click, or are you tapping the pad itself?
Please also post the output of
Thanks!
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
I am clicking the physical buttons, but they are part of the touchpad--i.e. they are sensitive, so if I move my finger along the buttons it moves the cursor. It looks like this. And clicking the right button works normally, as long as I am not touching the touchpad in any other place at the same time.
Code:
administrator@X55A:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASUS USB2.0 Webcam id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
Thanks.
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
Hm, try running
Code:
synclient PalmDetect=1
or
Code:
synclient FingerHigh=50
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
synclient PalmDetect=1 did nothing. synclient FingerHigh=50 made the touchpad very unresponsive (my USB mouse is unaffected), but didn't fix the right click issue.
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
Well, run
Code:
synclient FingerHigh=30
To reset that.
I suppose you could try disabling tap to click?
Code:
synclient TapButton1=1
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
That didn't seem to change anything. I'm thinking it might just be a hardware issue that can't be changed... but if you have any more ideas I'd love to hear them. Either way thanks for trying.
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
Must not be thinking right. It's
Code:
synclient TapButton1=0
1 means on, 0 means off.
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
Re: Can't right click while touching touchpad
I don't know if messing around with other synclient commands will help or not. You can try. Running
will bring up a list of available commands/settings.
Alternately, you can set it so that a two-finger tap equals right click (this is how I set all my laptops). The command is
Code:
synclient TapButton2=3