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[Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's button 2, so it makes sense for it to be on 2 fingers, and to make
it easier to middle-tap than right-tap because (almost?) no touchpad has
a real middle button, but most have a right button. So obviously
somebody decided it would be better to be "consistent" with Windows at
the expense of true consistency and usability :-(.

Of more concern is that someone decided to disable middle-tapping
altogether for touchpads which don't support multiple fingers.

IMO the capplet should be extended so you can use it to configure how
button 2 and 3 are emulated with taps. Ubuntu is supposed to be an "it
just works" distro, and I don't expect it to be virtually unusable
before fiddling around with xorg.conf or with that xinput command I
found with a lot of luck.

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[Karmic] No middle key emulation with synaptics touchpad
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