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I'm trying to enable the middle click with 3 fingers on my touchpad usingsynclient ClickFinger3=2. I know from similar questions that the modification is not permanent after standby, so I used the workaround provided in the first answer of this question in order to avoid this problem. But the problem is that when I turn on the computer, the middle button click does not work and only when resuming from standby it starts to work perfectly. I check the output of synclient right after the startup and the setting ClickFinger3=2 is already there. So the option is already set but it starts to work after a resume from standby.

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  • Try removing the spaces in ClickFinger3 = 2, this is just my guess on a possible solution, but there could be no difference. – TheOdd Oct 05 '16 at 14:14
  • When you say 'startup' do you mean Ubuntu 'Startup Applications'? – WinEunuuchs2Unix Oct 05 '16 at 15:22
  • @Owen Hines thank you but the spaces were just in the output of synclient shown in terminal, not in my command – newman_ash Oct 05 '16 at 20:42
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix: No, I'm sorry I mean just right after the start up, until you resume after a standby. I'll edit the question – newman_ash Oct 05 '16 at 20:46
  • Probably the setting was applied, but effectively broken or overruled because it was set too early. Run on startup the same command as in your current solution, but with a delay of say 15 seconds: /bin/bash -c "sleep 15 && <command_to_set_the_mouse>" – Jacob Vlijm Oct 05 '16 at 21:00
  • Agreed with Jacob but would start more modest with 2 second sleep. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Oct 05 '16 at 21:40
  • It doesn't work. I tried with sleep 2, 15 and more but still have the same problem. I've notice that even by manually typing synclient ClickFinger3=2 in the terminal after power on, the middle click doesn't work. Maybe it needs a sequence of commands like first disabling 2 fingers click, then adding 3 fingers click or something like that, what do you think? (As usual after resume everything works) – newman_ash Oct 06 '16 at 13:23
  • Hi @newman_ash to find out, could you startup your computer, open a terminal and run dconf watch / (keep it running). Subsequently go into standby and wake up again. Might very wll give us usefull information on what relevant setting is possibly edited. – Jacob Vlijm Oct 07 '16 at 18:55
  • @JacobVlijm thank you. This is the output of dconf watch / $ dconf watch / /apps/update-manager/launch-time 1475918972 /com/canonical/unity/minimize-count 38
    But as you can see, nothing much happened, just the update manager showing out     – newman_ash Oct 08 '16 at 09:32
  • @newman_ash Ah, that's a pitty, I was hoping for something relevant to be changed in dconf... – Jacob Vlijm Oct 08 '16 at 09:39

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