"pretty narrow set of hardware" is absolutely false. It is tuned for laptops that have clickpads which most of them these days, with only the exception of some Dell and HP "business" laptops. Everything else ships with clickpads that support 2 or more fingers (even including most Dell and HP laptops)
Regardless, you can go back to the old driver with the old dual behaviour: 1. sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 2. Only login to "Ubuntu" (Xorg sessions). Not "Ubuntu on Wayland". 3. Tweak your personal preferences with the 'synclient' tool. 4. Save your personal preferences as a command to run on login in 'gnome-session-properties'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gsettings-desktop-schemas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759300 Title: Gnome Shell: Touchpad right click (bottom right) area does not work Status in gsettings-desktop-schemas package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: The right (second) touchpad click does not work. It ceased to work about three months ago. ubuntu 18,04 aser ex2519 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsettings-desktop-schemas/+bug/1759300/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp