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[NachoR <754000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All that's a bit confusing for me. I have a synaptics touchpad, and I
was using really MUCH the three-fingers tap for opening links in a new
tab, closing tab, pasting selections, etc. I think that was such a
natural way of doing, that to say: change that for two fingers, is not a
solution I can accept. There is a BIG advantage on having the mid-click
assigned for three fingers: I use two for scrolling, and having two as a
mid-clicks can trigger this action by mistake if I touch accidentally
shot the touchpad, and then is much nicer to have the two-fingers-click
assigned to right button, so, it just triggers the menu, ans just
touching outside it get its out. Really fast and comfortable.

The problem (don't know if that's what Unity is doing to avoid the
three-finger-click) is that synclient -m 100 reports just one finger in
touchpad when there are three. And for me is the same in unity or XFCE4.
I cannot use he mid-click with three fingers, and, really, it's a
hell...... That should never be changed in that way, with no option to
re-adjust. It's not a new action. It's a BUG.

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

Status in Mactel Support:
  Confirmed
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in uTouch:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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