Re: Where did the touch pad tapping go?

Fabien Dubosson via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:31:04 +0200

Hi,

> Yesterday I could tap my touch pad to trigger mouse clicks (single
> finger for left mouse button, ...), but today nothing!
>
> Anyone else seeing this, or am I alone?

I had the same problem yesterday after an update. I don't know what is
the cause, but it seems that the synaptic options "TapButton[123]" are
set to zero instead of "[123]" respectively now.

> I had a quick look around but found no news suggesting that any recent
> upgrade requires configuring my touchpad, or that I need to install any
> new package to get my touch pad back to working the way I want.

I also haven't seen any information about this.

> Any and all suggestions are welcome :)

I solved this by creating a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf"
file with the following content:

    Section "InputClass"
      Identifier "Touchpad"
      Driver "synaptics"
      MatchIsTouchpad "on"
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
      Option "TapButton1" "1"
      Option "TapButton2" "2"
      Option "TapButton3" "3"
    EndSection

++ Fabien