Bug#823670: xserver-xorg-input-all: Tap to click not working after upgrade
On 27/05/16 01:37, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, el 26 de May a las 22:06 me escribiste:
>>> I'm not sure which package(s) is(are) responsible for this, but this one
>>> was the only one I found related to input, so I'm reporting it here.
>>> Sorry if it belongs somewhere else.
>>
>> The problem was that the libinput driver was used, which has some regressions
>> compared to the synaptics driver. I have fixed this in synaptics 1.8.3-2, which
>> will be used by default now.
> Hi Emilio, thanks for the fix, but I installed the new version and
> tapping still doesn't work. The scrolling, which was also worse,
> improved with the update, but the tapping is not back.
>
> I tried to look in gnome-control-center Mouse & Touchpad options to see
> if maybe I had to enable it again, but I noticed now it offers almost no
> options, only to pick if the Primary Button is the left or the right,
> but no config for acceleration, tapping behaviour, scrolling, etc. which
> was there before.
>
> Any ideas?
> I could enable it through the console via: synclient TapButton1=1
>
> But still, I wonder why now gnome control center doesn't show any
> options for the touchpad...
The latest gnome-control-center / gnome-settings-daemon dropped support for the
synaptics driver and added support for the libinput driver. So you will only be
able to configure your touchpad through gnome-control-center if you are using
the libinput driver.
We're thinking about how to best solve this. Possibly by temporarily bringing
back synaptics support to gnome-control-center. But in the long run, libinput
will be used.
Cheers,
Emilio
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