{"id":7947,"date":"2018-07-15T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2018-07-15T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:18:58","slug":"touchpad-right-click-not-working-in-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/touchpad-right-click-not-working-in-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"[Quick Fix] Touchpad Right-click not working in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on my old ASUS laptop, I found that the touchpad right-click does not work. This is because Ubuntu 18.04 by default acts right-click when you perform two-finger click on touchpad.<\/p>\n<p>While my laptop touchpad does not have <b>physical buttons<\/b>, I have to do two-finger click to perform right-click.<\/p>\n<p><b>So following steps will show you how to make right-click (clicking on the bottom right area of the touchpad) working again in touchpad without a physical button in Ubuntu 18.04.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open Ubuntu Software, search for and install <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-600x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-600x202.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-450x152.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-768x259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Launch Gnome Tweaks and navigate to <b>Keyboard &#038; Mouse<\/b> settings page.<\/p>\n<p>Under <b>Mouse Click Emulation<\/b>, simply click enable the second option: &#8220;Area &#8211; Click the bottom right of the touchpad for right-click and the bottom middle for middle click.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gnome-tweak-mouse-emulation-1-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gnome-tweak-mouse-emulation-1-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gnome-tweak-mouse-emulation-1-450x296.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gnome-tweak-mouse-emulation-1-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gnome-tweak-mouse-emulation-1.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on my old ASUS laptop, I found that the touchpad right-click does not work. This is because Ubuntu 18.04 by default acts right-click when you perform two-finger click on touchpad. While my laptop touchpad does not have physical buttons, I have to do two-finger click to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1389],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-touchpad"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}