Re: Tap to click not working
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sridhar M.A. <mas@mylug.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently running debian testing on Acer laptop. Everything was
> working as expected. Since a couple of days, the tap to click on the
> touchpad has stopped working. Of course, I can set it Gnome preferences.
> But, when I switch to openbox, I have lost that functionality.
>
> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has the following lines :
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "TapButton1" "1"
> Option "TapButton2" "2"
> Option "TapButton3" "3"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "touchpad" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> EndSection
>
>
> This was working well. Tap to click worked in gdm3, openbox, whatever.
> Can anybody provide some pointers to get back the old behaviour?
>
> Regards,
>
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As root do the following:
Create touchpad.conf as follows:
nano /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf
In the editor type:
options psmouse proto=imps
Save and reboot.....tap to click should work.
HTH
-Matt
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