Bug#559233: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Tap and Scrolling disabled by default on touchpad (and missing documentation to enable it)

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:47:50PM -0200, Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> Mattia Dongili wrote:
> >Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> >>>You very conveniently left out from the NEWS file I quoted the part
> >>>that pointed at gpointing-device-settings, which is integrated in the
> >>>desktop environment
> >>
> >>I tried gpointing-device-settings, but it's not permanently. After
> >>reboot, it lost the config.
> >
> >if you're using gnome you can configure the touchapd in
> >gnome-mouse-properties.
> 
> No. I'm using KDE:
> <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189567>

good, hopefully you'll see something for KDE too at some point.

> >>Do you have any documentation about how to enable tap/scrolling
> >>editing xorg.conf?
> >
> >there is an example in
> >/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.Debian.gz
> >it also says how to configure it via hal.
> 
> # cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy

did you also edit the file?
This is what I have:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
			<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

you can find plenty of other examples online.
-- 
mattia
:wq!