Wierd dubble tap action

Hello
In Linux Linpus, Firefox, when I dubble tap on touchpad in the right upper corner my browser loads rss.com or radio.com. How come?
When I dubble tap in the lower right corner it brings ups rightclick, that seems more logic.

Anyone how knows how to change the actions of dubble tapping?

Lali

 

wow this sure is about windows...

 

No, its Linux.

 

@rory: many people will have guessed it's not about Windows since it's in the Software - Linux section of the forum.

@lali: I think you've found something I meant to look for!

In Linux, clicking on the third (middle) mouse button pastes in whatever was last selected - so if you select something in one application, switch to another and middle-click, whatever is selected is copied over. Not having to copy explicitly for a one-off copy'n'paste job is one of those little Linux conveniences which you really miss when you have to use Windows instead!

It seems that double-tapping the top right of the One's trackpad does the same.

I suspect the last thing you selected was the address of rss.com, and you're inadvertently pasting it into the address bar of the browser.

 

David;
Very good. I had selected RSS at one time and RADIO another. Firefox tried for .com and found rss.com and radio.com.
I was confused because I had never been to those sites.

Now, when I understand the feature, it's a very nifty thingy, indeed.

Thank you David!

 

If you're like me, and you end up accidentally tapping those corners while scrolling, there's a way to move the location of the tap area. I'm not near my One right now, so I can't really give you a hands-on tutorial right now, but editing /home/user/.qsynaptics should help. I moved these zones to the left top and bottom, since I'm much less prone to accidentally hit them.

 

Well, I think I can live with the hotspots at their original locations, but maybe other users wanna move them. :roll:

 

I fixed the small issue of not being near to my One :lol: , so here goes:

Press alt-F2. On the prompt, enter

Code:

 mousepad /home/user/.qsynaptics 

(Don't forget the period). There are 4 entries in that file, for each corner. Their names are "LBCornerButton", "RBCornerButton", "LTCornerButton" and "RTCornerButton" for left bottom, right bottom, left top and right top respectively. The values are the emulated mouse button number: 1 for left, 2 for middle, 3 for right, use '0' to disable. I used

Code:

LBCornerButton 2
LTCornerButton 3

and

Code:

RBCornerButton 0
RTCornerButton 0

Save the file. To reload your settings, press Alt-F2, and enter

Code:

qsynaptics -r

(or reboot)