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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my new Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 M772DGE. Unfortunately the right mouse button of the touchpad is not working correctly. Every mouse button click is interpreted as a left mouse button click. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the synaptics (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics) drivers, but the problem is still present.



What else can I do? Any other suggestions? Is it possible to emulate a right mouse click event with a keyboard key?


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I think I can give you the answer



Open a terminal, then type:



echo "options psmouse proto=exps" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf


Enter your password when prompted and then press Enter.



Now, while your right mouse click should be working after a reboot, you can try doing it without a reboot, but it might crash your desktop. It didn't for me, so here it is, type in the same terminal as root:



sudo modprobe -r psmouse; sudo modprobe psmouse


hope that helps!



edit: ok, so now that the right button works, the touchpad section of the mouse settings disappeared, and so did my custom settings and the multitouch capability, which resulted in a slow mouse pointer and no ability to scroll. I think I'll write a bug report on this one.



edit2: I searched through the web, and apparently, there is some obscure way to fix this problem, but it relies on ressources and patches that aren't available so easily anymore. I fixed this problem for me by upgrading to quantal quetzal, which includes adequate (albeit not great) support for multitouch clickpads by default


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