Re: Touchpad tap clicking

[George Kiagiadakis <kiagiadakis.george@gmail.com>]

2009/8/22 Vincent Frison <vincent.frison@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> My laptop touchpad works pretty well on my KDE except for the tap clicking.
>
> I tried different solutions but none of them has worked:
>
> 1) Enabling tap clicking on gsynaptics
>
> 2) Adding an explicit conf in xorg.conf:
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier "Touchpad0"
>    Driver "synaptics"
>    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>    Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>    Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
>    Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
> [..]
> EndSection
>
> 3) Adding lines in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi such as
> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
>
> Apparently there's no GUI for touchpad in KDE settings unlike GNOME :(
>
> And the weird thing is that it works perfectly when I boot on a Kubuntu 8.10
> Live CD! In that case there's no special conf relative to touchpad in
> xorg.conf...
>
> I'm under Debian unstable with KDE 4.3.0 and  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> 1.1.2-1 installed.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,

Hi,

I had the same bug here and I solved it by downgrading
xserver-xorg-core to version 1.4.2 from testing. It seems like a xorg
bug to me...

Regards,
George