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[Narj <markthurman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Losing "middle click" is hurting my productivity - please put it back.
X11 applications traditionally assume the presence of three buttons and
as such, it often makes things difficult or imposssible to lose the
presence of the middle button. At a minimum, it means that one can't
paste the selection. I can understand people coming from other operating
systems not noticing the loss of this functionality: after all, if you
don't know it's there, you don't miss it. However, on Unix, it is like
losing one of the keys on the keyboard because it "confuses" people from
an operating system which doesn't have it.

Yes, I can move my hand to the separate mouse buttons, but that takes
time, and for every click, it adds up. Yes, I can also reconfigure
Synaptics using the settings above, though it's hardly obvious. If you
really must disable middle click, please at least add an easy
configuration option (perhaps in the "mouse preferences" control panel)
to turn this back on.

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Tapping upper right corner no longer produces middle click in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447403
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