How to define other actions for touchpad buttons

Hi guys,

I have a HP ZBook17G2 Laptop using latest Cinnamon Desktop. All Updates are done.
I’d like to now how I can alter the action of the touchpad buttons. The middle button will close tabs in browsers or close windows which is of no use to me. Instead, for a telescope mount that I build it would be more use to me to start a terminal like bash or tcsh/csh (old scientific software is in need for that).

I’m not sure wheather this is a DE thing or an OS thing. Advice would be appreciated.

cheers,
Camaro

Have you tried the settings in Cinnamon for the touchpad?

Screenshot from 2020-12-27 19-32-00

Yes, was there but there you can’t define the actions of the buttons. Was where I looked first. The click actions mean tapping the touchpad and are not related to the buttons above and below the touchpad.

Maybe check out the wiki here?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput