Gnome on Fedora 28 silent change blindsided me
I'm used to notebook touchpads emulating left and right buttons with the lower portion of the touchpad. Clicks elsewhere on the touchpad count as left clicks. Silently, the new gnome that comes with Fedora 28 defaults to treating all clicks as left clicks. At least on my Acer Apire E11's touchpad. To get a right click, one is supposed to tap with two fingers. It can be configured back to the old behaviour, but this requires the gnome-tweak-tool (or a weird command in a shell window). Not very "discoverable"! This took me a while to figure out. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573537>
On 2018-05-06 01:56 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I'm used to notebook touchpads emulating left and right buttons with the lower portion of the touchpad. Clicks elsewhere on the touchpad count as left clicks.
Silently, the new gnome that comes with Fedora 28 defaults to treating all clicks as left clicks. At least on my Acer Apire E11's touchpad. To get a right click, one is supposed to tap with two fingers.
It can be configured back to the old behaviour, but this requires the gnome-tweak-tool (or a weird command in a shell window). Not very "discoverable"!
This took me a while to figure out.
I was aware this was coming, as I keep tabs on Peter Hutterer's blog. He is the lead author and maintainer of libinput. https://who-t.blogspot.ca/2018/04/gnome-328-uses-clickfinger-behaviour-by.ht... And this is the upstream GNOME commit, that came down stream with Fedora 28. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gsettings-desktop-schemas/commit/?id=77ff1d9 -- Scott Sullivan
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