[SOLVED] Middle click with three fingers tap on XFCE edition

[zangetsu]

On Mint 19 XFCE, I would like to set middle click with three fingers tap on my touchpad. When I was on Linux Mint 18 KDE edition, touchpad's settings had that option but now on XFCE there isn't that option...So, I followed this guide...but it didn't work.

How could I obtain what I want?

[zangetsu]

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[zangetsu]

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[smurphos]

You can test for output from your touch pad using xev run in the terminal.

E.g on Mint Cinnamon 19 and my hardware a three finger tap returns button 2 (middle click) by default. The click settings for the Touchpad are set to Automatic.

I've just checked in a Vbox install of XFCE 19 and on my hardware at least the three finger tap works by default. Might be different in a bare metal install though... gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method returns 'fingers'

if your is different you can set it via gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'

You can easily review the touchpad settings using the GUI app dconf-editor - apt install dconf-editor

Is your touchpad working correctly otherwise? If all the settings look Ok and it's still not working you could try an alternative touchpad driver. See the XFCE release notes here for instructions - https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tara_xfce.php

[zangetsu]

You can test for output from your touch pad using xev run in the terminal.

I tried xev command and when I tap the touchpad with three fingers there is no output in the terminal instead, when I use the middle click with USB mouse, It detects the button pressure and then the release...this is the output with USB Mouse:

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ButtonPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001,
    root 0x190, subw 0x0, time 587275, (162,2), root:(1033,438),
    state 0x10, button 2, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001,
    root 0x190, subw 0x0, time 587403, (162,2), root:(1033,438),
    state 0x210, button 2, same_screen YES

E.g on Mint Cinnamon 19 and my hardware a three finger tap returns button 2 (middle click) by default. The click settings for the Touchpad are set to Automatic.

Yeah, with Cinnamon or KDE It was all fine...

I've just checked in a Vbox install of XFCE 19 and on my hardware at least the three finger tap works by default. Might be different in a bare metal install though...

Yes, I think it could be different

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method returns 'fingers'
if your is different you can set it via gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'

Same output...'fingers'

You can easily review the touchpad settings using the GUI app dconf-editor - apt install dconf-editor

Everything seems good. The only thing worthy of note is that there is no a middle click setting

Is your touchpad working correctly otherwise? If all the settings look Ok and it's still not working you could try an alternative touchpad driver. See the XFCE release notes here for instructions - https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tara_xfce.php

I tried even this...not even "libinput" driver worked...


I am desperate

[smurphos]

Mmm.....may be sending you off on a wild goose chase but....using libinput .....viewtopic.php?f=208&t=275565&start=20#p1512113

[zangetsu]

After several imprecations, I abandoned libinput and switched back to synaptics driver. Then I found out that synclient TapButton3=2 command works for what I was searching for...so, I created an executable script with the following code:

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#! /bin/bash

synclient TapButton3=2
exit 0

and I run it, automatically, at every startup.

Thanks a lot for the help....so, this is the end