Touchpad emulate right click and hold with 3 fingers

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I have a Firefox plug-in called "All-in-One Gestures" I have a new Lenovo laptop with ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad and no mouse.

What I would like to achieve is the following: when I move three fingers over the touchpad, I would like to emulate mouse movement with right click pressed.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '14 at 05:18

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Try installing touchegg: https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/Downloads?tm=2

It's not maintained, but it's worth a try.

answered Jul 13 '14 at 05:18

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Good options, though i'm already tried it. My problem with touchegg was that in order to propely operate i had to disable vertical scrolling and use touchegg for that as well, but that way vertical scrolling is a gesture and i had some issue with the sensitivity. I even tried to set up ginn which seems more promising for me but no luck with it yet. – bonyiii Jul 13 '14 at 12:13
:) ok will suggest something else... Thanks for the feedback – lolzies Jul 14 '14 at 06:28
@bonyiii - Honestly, Ubuntu doesn't have the best touchpad options while F20 KDE is the best. http://www.fclose.com/wp/files/2012/06/kde-tapping-touchpad-left-click.png wish we had something with ubuntu – lolzies Jul 14 '14 at 06:30
This still works as of Ubuntu 18.10. `touchegg` is available in the repos now, so installing is simply `sudo apt install touchegg`. The code is [here](https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg), and there has been some work after 2014. – tanius May 02 '19 at 23:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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You should install the Synaptics touchpad from the software centre. It give you a lot of options graphically for configuring your touchpad.

Also you could check this out: How can I setup my touchpad multi-finger tapping functionality?

and the oficial Synaptics documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jul 08 '14 at 08:13

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Thank you for your reply, i'm using kde and there is an excellent graphical tool ```/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kcm_touchpad``` but that is not supporting this kind of so called advanced scenario. – bonyiii Jul 08 '14 at 08:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '14 at 07:44

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Reinstall the Touchpad driver:

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics && sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Then reboot.

answered Jul 14 '14 at 07:44

What will it be good for? – bonyiii Jul 14 '14 at 13:52
@bonyiii sorry i couldnt get – Jul 14 '14 at 13:56
Sorry, maybe i wasn't specific enough. How will the command you mentioned help me to set up holding the right click emulation with touchpad? – bonyiii Jul 14 '14 at 14:00

Touchpad emulate right click and hold with 3 fingers

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