On Fedora, the mouse which has physical buttons has a left and right click where:
- left click - primary click
- right click - secondary click
The mouse wheel when pressed down gives:
- middle click - tertiary click
Where the tertiary click performs copy and paste.
The touchpad in Fedora uses a pressure sensor by default and it doesn't matter where you push down on the touchpad but rather how many fingers you push down with:
- 1 finger - primary click
- 2 fingers - secondary click
- 3 fingers - tertiary click (copy/paste)
Press ⊞ to view the GNOME Dock, then select 𓃑 and then select Settings:
Select Mouse and Touchpad. By default the mouse tab will be selected and use button behaviour by default:
To the top select Touchpad. By default the touchpad is configured to use Finger Push where pushing down on the touchpad using the pressure of 1-3 fingers performs the primary, secondary and tertiary clicks:
To change the behaviour to match the behaviour of the mouse and the typical touchpad behaviour on Windows, select corner push, Now the touchpas has:
- left click - primary click
- right click - secondary click
3 Finger Gestures will continue to work regardless of the touchpad clicking setting. Do not push down when using 3-finger gestures.
A 3 finger swipe up will move to the overview:
Notice the overview scrolls into focus:
This takes to the same overview when ⊞ is pressed:
A 3 finger swipe down will bring the desktop back into focus.
A 3 finger swipe right will move onto the next workspace:
Notice using a three finger gesture to swipe right moves to the next workspace:
Using a three finger gesture to swipe left will move back to the previous workspace.