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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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