Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

[Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Francois Gouget wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Unfortunately the synaptics package in Debian was changed to have a
> > > higher priority then libinput [2]. So if you have
> > > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed you can't configure your touchpad
> > > in gnome-control-center atm.
> > 
> > Removing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics worked. Thanks!
> 
> I've been meaning to send this for a while.
> 
> The problem with removing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is that then I 
> can no longer right-click using the touchpad, neither through a hard 
> click, nor by tapping. It looks like xserver-xorg-input-libinput either 
> does not support it, or is not configured to support it but then I have 
> not found any configuration option for it.
> 
> So things are still not working as they should :-(

I tried some more mouse/touchpad drivers to no avail. To summarize:
 * xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: tap-to-click but no right click
 * xserver-xorg-input-libinput:  right click but no tap-to-click
 * xserver-xorg-input-mtrack:    dead touchpad, mouse works
 * xserver-xorg-input-multitouch:dead touchpad, mouse works
 * xserver-xorg-input-mutouch:   dead touchpad, mouse works

So no matter what, touchpads are broken in GNOME and so far as I can 
tell nobody cares :-(

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