Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 7:49:56 am Micha Feigin wrote:
> 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 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?
Yes, you should drop your xinput commands into a script and put the script
into /etc/X11/Xsession.d. Scripts in here get run whenever X starts, not just
your session, but globally.
MM
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