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Re: Debian Stretch Xfce Touchpad Settings Missing



On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 05:59:58PM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> On 28-06-17, Apurv Jyotirmay wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use a Synaptics touchpad on my laptop. Normally on other distributions
> > (Xubuntu, Manjaro, etc.), the mouse settings area displayed a tab to
> > configure touchpad settings, but on Debian 9 that particular tab is
> > missing, and because of it I'm unable to activate features like "tap to
> > click", which is an inconvenience. Can anyone help me find a solution to
> > this issue? I'm new to Debian and not really familiar with the way driver
> > support works.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Apurv
> 
> In Gnome, situation like that was solved by installing
> xserver-xorg-input-libinput instead of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, if
> I remember it correctly. Hope that it can help you.

You can also run synclient to adjust settings. There's a section
on it in the Debian wiki.

-dsr-


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