It does indeed seem that with David Härdeman's comment #144 patches the left-click to drag/select does not work. As a workaround with the patches applied (so that right-click, etc., works), in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, set "BottomEdge" to "4000" and "AreaBottomEdge" to "4445".
The physical bottom limit of the Synaptics touchpad is at about 4890. The horizontal line depicting the top of the left- and right-click buttons is at about 4000. By setting AreaBottomEdge to 4445, the bottom half of the button area can be used for left-click to drag or select, but is disabled for normal pointer movement. By setting BottomEdge to 4000, the top half of the bottom button area can still be used for horizontal scrolling, if enabled, and for right-clicking, and also for defining the LBCornerButton and RBCornerButton, but is disabled for normal pointer movement. In other words, to left-click to select text or drag a window, click on the bottom half of the left-button area. For horizontal edge-scrolling, slide a finger just below the horizontal line marking the top of the mouse buttons. For right-click, click just below the horizontal line on the right-button area. It's not an ideal solution, but workable and easy to get used to. The settings may need a little tweaking to proportion the mouse button area the way you want. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582809 Title: Synaptics Clickpad touchpad buttons are not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/582809/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
