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[Bug 636720] Re: Touchpad sends a middle click instead of left click.

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From: Christian Göbel <christiangoebel@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:11:30 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 636720 <636720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Same issue since Ubuntu 10.10 on a Samsung X20 notebook, with a "classical" standard 2-button synaptics touchpad.
This touchpad worked fine on all previous versions of ubuntu - so I tagged the bug as regression. 

The "left click sends a middle click"-issue appears in roughly 10% of the cases and resulted in a terrible usability:
- Imaging using Firefox and a left click on a tab closes the tab in 10% of the cases.
- Or clicking on a link opens a new tab - after 30 minutes of surfing you will end up with 20 tabs opened. 
- Same thing in nautilus - tabs randomly opened all over the place. 

The workaround suggested by Kruffwuff seem to work for me.

Should this problem reported upstream? Or this this a downstream
(Ubuntu+Suse) bug?

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Touchpad sends a middle click instead of left click.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636720
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