Bug#532995: synclient output for two and three-fingered failure

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Itai Seggev wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:25:58PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > Here is the output; I can reconfirm that this happens on powerbooks.
> > > synclient -m 1; registers two fingers, so at least that part is
> > > working properly.
> > 
> > Ah, now I see the problem. If I do:
> > 
> > synclient -s -l; I see that TapButton1 isn't set.
> > 
> > synclient -s TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=1; resolves these
> > issues.
> > 
> > Itai: doing the above will probably fix it for you too.
> 
> I tried it, but it didn't have much of an effect. All it did was set
> two fingers to right click and three fingers to left click, but it
> had no effect on single finger tap. I can set TapButton1 to pretty
> much any value without any effect. Is there some other setting I
> should be mucking with?

What's the ouptut of synclient -s -l; ? Are you changing the values
using -s?


Don Armstrong

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