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Re: Synaprics right click

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buck <buck@private.mil> wrote:
> Perhaps if I say that I want the TouchPad to behave exactly like a 
> mouse that will clarify it?

If you want a mouse rather than a touchpad your best option might be to
buy an USB mouse for your laptop.
 
> I mentioned the key because it seems to me that its presence means that
> the pad cannot be configured to right click, so that the key is HP's
> effort at similar but not identical functionality.

It is up to you to configure the functionality of the key as you like.

My laptop also has a touchpad. Both the left and right button below this
touchpad works fine, but it has no physical middle button. I did configure
X to emulate a middle button by pressing both left and right button at
once with the following line in xorg.conf:

    Option "Emulate3Buttons"

IMHO this does not make the touchpad with its button as convenient to use
as a real 3 button mouse, but it makes it good enough not to make it worth
the effort to have an extra mouse for the laptop.

regards Henrik
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Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-07-28 21:03 +0000
  Re: Synaprics right click Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-07-29 11:31 +0200
  Re: Synaprics right click Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-07-29 21:21 -0500
    Re: Synaprics right click Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-29 23:22 -0400
      Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-07-30 07:53 +0000
        Re: Synaprics right click Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-07-30 11:16 +0200
        Re: Synaprics right click Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-08-06 10:18 -0700
  Re: Synaprics right click Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2012-08-01 19:37 +0000
    Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-08-02 18:56 +0000
      Re: Synaprics right click Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2012-08-06 16:12 +0000
        Re: Synaprics right click Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2012-08-06 20:44 +0000
          Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-08-07 16:56 +0000
            Re: Synaprics right click Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2012-08-07 20:35 +0000

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