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No Laptop tapping
« Thread Started on Feb 16, 2011, 2:31pm »

Just installed 1.1 and everything works well except tapping on my laptop. Scrolling is ok and I can navigate using buttons on trackpad. But tapping does not work. Installed gpointing-device-settings but it is for turning off trackpad and adjusting your settings. Any help as to how to fix this is appreciated.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #1 on Feb 16, 2011, 3:15pm »

Try this gksu synclient TapButton1=1 if you are using the synaptics Xorg driver that will enable you to click on tap. The package gpointing-device-settings will allow you to change all kinds of settings of the mouse. You may have to add a startup entry for gsynaptics-init in order to get your changes to load at boot time. You can do this in the Xfce settings manager under the Application AutoStart tab.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #2 on Feb 16, 2011, 6:45pm »

Thanks for the quick response. I`m away from my laptop for a few days but will try your solution at first opportunity.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #3 on Mar 7, 2011, 10:41pm »

I've been following this thread because I have the same problem. The remedy you describe, Anthony, works, but I can't get the changes to load with a reboot. I put gsynaptics-init in as a command in the Application Auto Start tab, but the changes still didn't load with a reboot. I'm new to Linux, so I could be doing something wrong. (Good job, by the way. I've tried other distributions, and I think I have settled on this one.)

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« Reply #4 on Mar 7, 2011, 11:06pm »

You can add this command to /etc/rc.local and it will be ran at boot. Just gksu mousepad /etc/rc.local and paste synclient TapButton1=1 anywhere above the exit 0 line and save it. I should have noted for it to work in the Xfce settings manager you would have to save it to a bash script and run the script at boot.

For Xfce settings manager it would like this:
#!/bin/bash
synclient TapButton1=1
exit

Named whatever you want and saved in /usr/local/bin, then mark it as executable. The use of rc.local is probably preferable though.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #5 on Mar 9, 2011, 9:28am »

Thanks for the advice, worked like a charm.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #6 on Mar 9, 2011, 9:48pm »

I wasn't able to get the rc.local file to work, but I did get tapping to work by adding the command to the Xfce Application AutoStart menu. Any more suggestions for scrolling?

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #7 on Mar 10, 2011, 11:47pm »

Nevermind. I was trying to get the side of the track pad that does scrolling to work. I just noticed that two-fingered scrolling works, so I'll just do that instead.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #8 on Mar 12, 2011, 11:41am »

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #9 on Mar 12, 2011, 12:27pm »

Murdock. take note.

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Re: No Laptop tapping
« Reply #10 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:19pm »

Thanks for sharing..........

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