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ulugeyik
October 7th, 2012, 01:20 PM
I use:
synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2

in order to allow me to use three finger press as a middle-button click on my ASUS UX31A ultrabook. I got this tip from various posts.

I tried to make this persistent and automatic by including it in the "Startup applications" but it is not working. Furthermore, if I run it from a terminal, it stops working if I close the terminal window.

I do not understand why I have this problem and how I can make it automatic?

Thanks,

Turgut

mikewhatever
October 7th, 2012, 01:41 PM
What exactly did you use as command in the startups?

ulugeyik
October 7th, 2012, 08:31 PM
What exactly did you use as command in the startups?

Just this:
synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2

Do I need to give full path?

mikewhatever
October 8th, 2012, 12:00 AM
No, that should work ok. Can you try something like this

bash -c 'sleep 10; synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2'

That should insert a delay of 10 seconds before the command.

ulugeyik
October 8th, 2012, 10:32 AM
Thanks. That works. I guess something was clashing somewhere but I can't tell what.