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[Jason Gullifer <jason.gullifer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Because of this change in behavior, the usability of my eeepc is
severely degraded. On this netbook, it is nearly impossible to click
both hardware buttons at once because of how they were designed, so I
relied heavily on the two-finger tapping method. Now that is gone. Since
the touch-pad is pretty small, the already difficult three-finger
maneuver becomes impossible. Thus, having two-finger tapping as middle
click is necessary. Now I'm  left without a sane middle click option, no
more highlight-paste buffer, no more easy opening of tabs in firefox,
etc.

This switch in behavior seems unfounded to me. I'm dubious as to whether
right click really is more frequently used than middle click for the
majority of people; think of all the web browsing and copy-pasting that
goes on.

At the very least, there should be an easy way to change this behavior
from the Ubuntu options by default instead of relying on hacks to change
it. Sometimes Ubuntu is really intuitive and easy to use... and other
times it takes hours to figure out how to change touch-pad options.

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Touchpad: Action for middle and right click is reversed since jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432814
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