Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device)
> settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again.
> 
> How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on
> the touchpad again with the modern debian?
> 
> It used to be in xorg.conf then it was hal with a file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/,
> what is it now?
> 
> I'm using debian unstable with xfce as windows manager (so gnome/kde settings are
> not relevant)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

I found that xinput can set the values but they are forgotten if a device is
disconnected and reconnected and on startup (and I don't know if the device
numbers are even persistent in any form and it doesn't seem to take device name)

Is it possible to set these values automatically somewhere?

Thanks