[GTALUG] Gnome on Fedora 28 silent change blindsided me

[Scott Sullivan]

On 2018-05-06 01:56 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I'm used to notebook touchpads emulating left and right buttons with the
> lower portion of the touchpad.  Clicks elsewhere on the touchpad count as
> left clicks.
> 
> Silently, the new gnome that comes with Fedora 28 defaults to treating all
> clicks as left clicks.  At least on my Acer Apire E11's touchpad.  To get
> a right click, one is supposed to tap with two fingers.
> 
> It can be configured back to the old behaviour, but this requires the
> gnome-tweak-tool (or a weird command in a shell window).  Not very
> "discoverable"!
> 
> This took me a while to figure out.
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573537>


I was aware this was coming, as I keep tabs on Peter Hutterer's blog. He 
is the lead author and maintainer of libinput.

https://who-t.blogspot.ca/2018/04/gnome-328-uses-clickfinger-behaviour-by.html

And this is the upstream GNOME commit, that came down stream with Fedora 28.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gsettings-desktop-schemas/commit/?id=77ff1d9

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Scott Sullivan