Reassign the Right button functionality of touchpad

Posted by Guandalino on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Guandalino
Published on 2012-11-05T08:49:02Z Indexed on 2012/11/05 11:25 UTC
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My notebook has a touchpad with two buttons.

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The touchpad works pretty well and I use it for vertical/horizontal scroll, two fingers scrolling etc. The Left button acts like the left button of a mouse. The Right button too, when clicked it makes appear the classic contextual menu (create new folder, move to trash etc...).

The problem is that Right button doesn't work anymore for mechanical reasons, so pressing it has no effect.

To recover the missing functionality, I'd like that pressing CTRL + Left button I get the same thing of pressing the Right button alone. Other combinations (CTRL + SHIFT + Left button) are also acceptable.

Any way to do that?

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