Can't right click while touching touchpad

[ShadowVegan]

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.

[cortman]

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

xinput

Thanks!

[ShadowVegan]

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.

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.

[cortman]

Hm, try running

synclient PalmDetect=1

or

synclient FingerHigh=50

[ShadowVegan]

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.

[cortman]

Well, run

synclient FingerHigh=30

To reset that.

I suppose you could try disabling tap to click?

synclient TapButton1=1

[ShadowVegan]

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.

[cortman]

Must not be thinking right. It's

synclient TapButton1=0

1 means on, 0 means off.

[ShadowVegan]

Still no change.

[cortman]

I don't know if messing around with other synclient commands will help or not. You can try. Running

synclient

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

synclient TapButton2=3