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[Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.  I have an Apple magic trackpad that I occasionally play with,
and this issue / design choice makes it pretty unusable with current
Unity.  The multitouch gestures for moving windows are great and all,
but what's the substitute for "highlight text with click and drag, and
then middle click to paste" -- catering to all backgrounds is great, but
what about old school X users?  Also as others mention, middle click to
close tabs in Firefox is pretty useful too.

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Title:
  Running Unity disables Xorg's 3-finger click support (middle click)

Status in Mactel Support:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Opinion
Status in uTouch:
  Invalid
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  as soon as i put down three fingers, the love handles appear. on the
  macbook pro a middle click is done with a 3 finger click. this is very
  low priority, and i could even see a wontfix. there's a simple work
  around to just not put all 3 fingers down at the same time and then
  click after all 3 are down.

  Please note this bug is about physically "clicking" a clickpad with 3
  fingers. 3 finger tapping is different and has been intentionally
  overridden in Unity 3D by new gestures.

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